Tested and Proved

Here is an encouraging little story I found. May we learn to do the same as this dear old lady!


After an elderly Christian lady passed away, her children and grand-children gathered in her house. They found her Bible in her room. The old woman had never been without her old copy of God's Word while she was alive. When her children and grandchildren opened it up, they found it was marked all over with these two little letters:
      T.  P.
At first, the woman's family could not figure out what all the "T"s and "P"s could mean. They were written there, in her careful handwriting, next to so many verses!. But then, in the back page of her Bible, they finally found an explanation for them: "T" stood for "Tested" and "P" stood for "Proved."
Slowly, the children and grandchildren of the woman began to understand what had happened. Over the years, this Christian lady had been "testing" and "proving" the promises of God. She had been reading verses, learning about the kind of God Who would write such promises, and then she would claim them in her life. She would read something like "But my God shall supply all your need" and she would pray about her needs based on that promise. Over and over again, year after year, this dear lady had put God's promises "to the test." And year after year, over and over again, God's Word had "proven itself" to be faithful and true.