| | Have you noticed that avoiding God while we try to get "back on track" is our default response to affliction? What foolishness. The cry of faith is to God. It's during despair, temptation, and bitterness that we need Him most. Why is it that when we're most helpless we wish He wasn't watching? Is admitting our inadequacy so hard?
Is it that affliction strikes us as an anomaly in Christian life? We seem to think suffering is punishment, and therefore must mean we've done something wrong.
But are you so sure it isn't that we've been doing something right? We have sixty-six books inscribed over millennia that tell us the way our God works. Since the barren Sarah and the supplanter Jacob He has used the little, the mean, the weak, and the things that are not. Our Savior was killed, yet at the moment of Death's triumph God accomplished eternal salvation and eternal life. Behold, He is alive forevermore, and where He is, there we shall be also.
God brings Life from Death. It's the way He works. It's the way He always has.
Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground.
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| | Posted 5/22/2005 11:56 PM - 1 view - 0 comments
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