What revealing words these are! Those who were speaking harsh words against God envied those who put God to the test and got away with it. Whereas God’s invitation to ‘put me to the test’ in 3:10 is an invitation to repent and trust God for his promised blessings, this putting God to the test in 3:14 is seeing how much you can get away with in disobeying God. It is the behaviour of arrogant people. Of course, those who complain fail to see is that when God lets people get away with it, that is actually
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