Our Busy Little World
Aug. 28, 2006 - From Matt: Mild Musings....
Why does life seem so difficult sometimes? Why does God tell us to run a mile and, after we start running, He authorizes someone to poke us with a sharp stick while trying to trip us every few feet?
We have our doctrines. We can tell people what we believe. We have a tendency to tuck our beliefs in our head and understand them "abstractly".
"It's adversity, it's hostility, it's crisis that enables us to put into practice the things that we claim that we know." Doug Wilson.
Trials are where the rubber meets the road. God likes them and sends them our way so that we have to rely upon His grace. Trials keep us honest and they put us in our place. Not only that, but God being the complex, suspenseful, Divine Author, likes to vindicate/save His people at the last minute.....But be of good cheer, on His mountain, "the LORD will provide" whether it is a ram instead of Isaac or it is our Beloved Savior hanging on a cross....it was the same mountain, and it was the same God providing grace to His people for our benifit and His glory.
