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Wednesday night devotions. / 05.29.08, 12:14 PM
On Wednesday nights I get to lead devotions with the guys right before dinner. The first time I went to do it I felt like I got stuck with it and wasn’t really interested. I mean, it’s just like any other new experience. We don’t know what it’s going to be like so our first reaction is to fear it rather than embrace it. Well. That’s what I tend to do. I don’t mean to generalize. I don’t think it’s an unfounded claim though. Which is why I said it. Oh dear.
Anyway. I’ve come to really enjoy doing it. The guests are going through Matthew, so it’s a great chance to go through it with them and talk it through. The other night read chapter 10:24-31. We got talking about having a sort of reckless faith in God and not worrying. It was great seeing the confused looks on the guys faces. They’re looking at me thinking and saying “isn’t that hard?” as if I know something they don’t, some sort of secret that makes living with a reckless faith easy.
So I responded “heck yeah! It’s damn near impossible.” I mean, it is but it isn’t. It’s so simple. Don’t worry. But when we can’t see what’s ahead of us (the unknown, see first paragraph) we stick to being afraid.
I was reading a work by Leonard Schiemer soon afterwards…
“Now if we are no longer to love any creature that we have loved before there is only one thing for God to do and that is to prune our branches… gives us his Spirit and teaches us to know and love him. This however does not take place without pain, suffering, and anguish… it is our unbelief that gives us pain. We cannot firmly believe that it happens for our good and that something better awaits us in the future… But there is an even greater unbelief that tortures us, namely godless thoughts such as: God will forget me. He will not remain faithful to me. He is a respecter of persons and will not help me as he has helped others. Unbelief cannot be more stupid than to think: if I surrender to God I surrender security. I will perish… Since he is the greatest good it is impossible not to love him alone and above all things if one knows him.”
That sort of spells out how it’s easy and why we’re wack enough to not believe it.
Just give it up already.
Peace.
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God is pretty decent at bringing things together in our lives, isn’t he? He pays a lot of attention to detail to make sure we understand exactly what it is he’s trying to teach us.
By lindsey / May 29, 01:35 PM / #
Good word!
By alum / May 31, 12:10 PM / #