When Christians are living in faith that God loves them and is involved in their lives, we can walk with a smile on our face. It means the realization and resignation that we don’t know everything, we’re not in charge of everything – and we don’t have to be. It is rest. It is the restfulness that trusts that whatever is happening to us, God is in control and will work all things to our ultimate blessing in Christ.
When Christians doubt, it is not always the kind of skepticism that leans toward agnosticism, it is often the questioning of God’s ways: “How could God (the god I have always thought God is), do or allow the things I see, (which I, personally, disapprove of)?” In other words, Christians doubt when they sit in judgment of God.
How much better to rest in his care and learn to trust. As Sara Groves writes in her song, “He’s Always Been Faithful,”
Morning by morning I wake up to find
the power and comfort of God's hand in mine.
Season by season I watch him amazed,
In awe of the mystery of his perfect ways
All I have need of his hand will provide.
He's always been faithful to me
All that we have – all that we can ever have and hold onto is strictly by faith. Everything else melts away with the stuff of earth. When we trust and believe, we can see straight ahead to eternity. In that place everything is put right, everything makes sense. He has already given us his kingdom; we can live there now, by faith, when we trust that God is good….all the time. All the time….God is good.
1 comment:
Excellent! Thanks, Don
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