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But a faith where you expect God to cosign on all your life plans
on your timeline and at your demand is a shallow faith.
strong faith comes from deep rejection, painful losses, doubt, discomfort, and
suffering.
walking with Jesus means that rejection and suffering are sure to come. But it is these exact seasons that strengthen your faith.
When God was disobedient, then they immediately reverted to what was familiar instead of trusting Him who had been faithful.
When the crisis comes or when God takes too long, oftentimes we replace Him—and what we grab is the nearest golden calf we can find, the most recent thing from Egypt. Egypt represents sin, and Satan wants you to go back to pleasing yourself.
You’re walking in security and depending on God and you’ve got yourself together… and then comes that first low day. You text who’s familiar instead of praying to Who’s been faithful.
That’s the nature of sin: brief relief to your flesh, deep discouragement to your soul, because idols never satisfy—only God does.
did not call us to comfort. He called us to the kingdom, and that requires a sense of faithfulness and trust when He disrupts us, when He goes off-course, when He goes off-script.
the great tragedy of God’s disobedience is not that He went off-script; it’s our response.
A prophet is a person whose calling is to deliver words from the Lord to the people they are intended for.
That’s what sin does: it makes you go further than you plan to go, stay longer than you plan to stay, and pay more than you can afford to pay. And when sin is finished with you, it leaves you for dead.
You can live a flawless life—a life marked with spiritual sacrifice. You can seek to build spiritual fortitude, follow all the laws and the rules, and do everything that a “good person” or a “good Christian” is supposed to do. But one day, you’re going to stand before God and He’s going to review your life and He just may say, “Yeah, great content. You did it all right.” And you’ll be standing there proud, but then He’ll say, “But it was the wrong assignment because I never knew you—and you never knew Me. You can know My rules and My instructions and still not know My heart.”
