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the unexpected.
Jesus was and is predictably un...
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Jesus never promised security. What He promised was uncertainty:
I’m not convinced that following Christ reduces circumstantial uncertainty.
I think we can know that we know we are children of God, our sins are forgiven, and we’re going to spend eternity in heaven.
We’ve got to develop an affinity for uncertainty and learn to enjoy the journey.
If everything had gone according to plan, Jesus would have never changed the molecular structure of water and turned it into wine. No problem equals no
miracle.
Thank God for uncertainty and unpredictability. The alternative is monotony.
Genesis 50:20 is the lens through which each of us must view our past, present, and future.
There are secrets the Lord God has not revealed to us.
Simple answers don’t suffice, and God doesn’t fit into the nice, neat boxes He used to fit into.
The psychological term for this experience is “cognitive dissonance.”
Dissonance comes in two primary flavors: unanswerable questions and unexplainable experiences.
sighing is one way we process grief. It is a physiological response to distress. I didn’t know how to vent or verbalize what I was feeling, so I sighed.
Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my sighing.
Even when we can’t put our frustration or anger or doubt or discouragement or grief into words, God hears and translates those low-frequency distress signals we call sighs.
Scripture says that God makes prayers out of our wordless sighs and aching groans.
The Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don’t even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.
Long before you woke up this morning, the Holy Spirit was interceding for you. And long after you go to bed tonight, the Holy Spirit will still be interceding for you.
our confidence isn’t contingent upon our circumstances.
Our confidence is contingent upon the character of God.
Our circumstances may not make sense, but we know that God is planning His wo...
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Some of your experiences won’t make sense this side of eternity, but lion chasers know that God is connecting the dots in ways they can’t comprehend. Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads.
What questions do you have for God in your own Deuteronomy 29:29 (“There are secrets the Lord
God has not revealed to us”) file? What could you do to help yourself accept that they may not get answered in your lifetime?
easy answers produce shallow convictions.
Right in the middle of that cow pasture, I heard what I would describe as the inaudible yet unmistakable voice of
God.
I decided to transfer from the University of Chicago to Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri.
had to give up my shooting-guard spot on the basketball team and a full-ride academic scholarship.
most God-ordained dreams die because we aren’t willing to do something that seems illogical.
There is no way I would have been ready to pastor a church plant when I was twenty-six if it weren’t for my two and a half years at Central Bible College.
Sometimes taking a calculated risk means giving up something that is good so you can experience something that is great.
Faith is renouncing lesser goods for something greater. And it always involves a calculated risk.
It is small acts of courage that change the course of history. Someone takes a risk or takes a stand. Someone makes a courageous decision or courageous sacrifice. And it has a domino effect.
inaction inertia.
Their fear of missing out is greater than their fear of messing up.
“God is always calling us into terra incognita. He wants us to go where we’ve never gone and do what we’ve never done.”
The goal of faith is not the elimination of risk.
the greatest risk is taking no risks.
Maybe righteousness has less to do with not doing anything wrong and more to do with doing things right.
He does promise that every God-ordained risk will be rewarded on the flip side of the space-time continuum.
“No one ever bet too much on a winning horse.”
The only regrets we’ll have at the end of our lives will be that we didn’t seek God more or seek God sooner.
There is no such thing as risk-free faith. And you can’t experience success without risking failure.
think our greatest regrets will be the God-ordained risks we didn’t take.
In the words of German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Hell begins the day God grants you the vision to see all that you could
have done, should have done, and would have done,...
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I think our deepest regrets are missed opportunities.
