2. How Soon is Now?

 

"When God´s People Quetion the Reliability of God" by Ronnie Martin

+ The reason we take things into our own hands is that we don´t believe God´s hands are really at work. Or in my case, it can be like what C.S. Lewis wrote: "We´re not neccesarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."

+I Had place all my hope in the talents He had given me and the identity I had drawn from them. Like Tim Keller says, "Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially ´deify´. We will look to it with all the passion  and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.".

+There´s nothing quite like the church being the church. It´s one of the ways God restores us.

+If we take a closer look, we discover God taking painful yet drastic measures to destroy our idols, level our doubts, and show us the incomparable bluntness, brightsness, and beauty of His grace.

+ The Holy Spirit supplies us with vision of the heart to see the unseen thing of God. (Ephesians 1:18)

+ God wants us to glory in the hope of himself. He wants our eyes to be continually opened to see the evidence of His goodness. We don´t have to look far. Our lives are saturated by it, but many times it´s most visible in hindsight.

+Most of us really believe in the partial sovereignty of God. We belive He´s doing work in our hearts and lives, but when problems and difficulties rear their ugly head, we feel it´s time to take matters into ourown hands, because God must have decided to take a break for a while. It´s in these times that we live like functioning unbelievers and experience the hopelessness that God already save us from.

+The problem was that there were barriers in my life that needed to be dismantled and destroyed.

+Paul [the apostle] changed the world while he was locked up, writting letters that have altered the fabric of Christianity. It was never so dark in Paul´s life that allowed himself to believe that God was absent. Instead, he prayed for the eyes to see God´s sovereign hand, a mind to comprehend His un ending goodness, and a heart to overflow in greatfulness.

Leer :1.You Gotta Have Faith

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ACERCA DEL AUTOR: Ronnie Martin

1. You Gotta Have Faith

 

"The Struggle to Believe When Life´s Falling Apart" by Ted Kluck

"Cast all your anxieties on him because he cares for you". 1 Peter 5:7 NIV

+I knew in my head that God was real, and even believed that he loved me.

+At the time I questioned two essential biblical truths -that God was good, and that He loved me. I was refusing to cast my anxieties on Him, because I struggled to fully trust Him not to hurt me again.

+ I believe in His sovereignty... I belive that God is ruler of all, even the enemy. Though, to be honest, it would have been easier to be mad at the devil. I think being mad at God, in the absence of hope and trust, is the darkest, loneliest place of all.

+I still believed, but I need help in my unbelief. I needed to cast my anxieties on Him, who cares for me. Scripture had given me a framework  for praying through my unbelief, but I was refusing to see it and use it.

Leer: 2. How Soon is Now?

ACERCA DEL AUTOR: Ted Kluck