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May 22, 2019 - October 31, 2021
When His timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention seems hurtful, and His promises seem doubtful, I get afraid. I get confused. And left alone with those feelings, I can’t help but feel disappointed
that God isn’t doing what I assume a good God should do.
If I want His promises, I have to trust His process. I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn’t ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you.
What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?
We live in a broken world where broken things happen.
God speaks in a language of freedom; Satan speaks in a language of restriction.
If I want His promises, I have to trust His process.
always want miraculous fixes without pain.
Especially my desire for everything to be okay right now and my refusal to just embrace the process of healing.
Doesn’t a relationship mean you show up when
needed?
Few things affect me more than being disappointed by those people who love me. But being disappointed by the fact that God doesn’t seem to be showing up during times of my greatest need? That wrecks my soul. It’s not that I expect God to fix ev...
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His humanity said, please not this. His humanity cried for something different.
His humanity begged for another way.
He learned from suffering compelled Him to trust Go...
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physical eyes co...
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When Jesus taught us to pray, He modeled again marked moments of trust
on a daily basis.
Obedience is the daily practice of trusting God.
God doesn’t want you or me to suffer. But He will allow it in doses to increase our trust.
Our pain and suffering isn’t to hurt us. It’s to save us. To save us from a life where we are self-reliant, self-satisfied, self-absorbed, and set up for the greatest pain of all . . . separation from God.
To trust God is to trust His timing. To trust God is to trust His way. God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.
God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.
This doesn’t change the fact that I want all of this to go away. I want happy. I want normal. I want easy.
Because that’s all I can conceive as a good plan.
And we must be led to it and through it slowly.
God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time
than the right time and in any other way than the right way.
To fix our thoughts on Jesus is to close our eyes.
To mark this moment by declaring our trust in God. To declare to God out loud like Jesus did, “Not my will but Yours be done.”
To stop fixating on the circumstances rag...
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To stop trying to make sense of things that make no sense in the m...
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And to stop asking for the know...
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We just have to close our physical eyes and turn our thoughts to Jesus.
Turn from the deep desire to know all the answers.
“hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12).
He wants us to be so consumed with our unmet expectations that our hearts just get sicker and sicker.
He wants our inner selves to get more and more disillusioned with our circumstances, other people, and God.
I don’t need answers. I need Jesus.
I need His wisdom to be the loudest voice in my life right now.
I need His truth washing over my ...
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now.
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I must stop the madness of my own assessments ...
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Even when we don’t understand. Even when things don’t make sense. And especially when we are disappointed.
But when my brain begs me to doubt God—as it most certainly does—I find relief for my unbelief by laying down my human assessments and assumptions.
God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way.
Disappointments aren’t a reason to run away. They are the reason to turn a different way.
I find relief for my unbelief by laying down my human assessments and assumptions.
