It seems natural to me that when I can’t see how my present situation serves the vision that He has for me that I found myself questioning God. There are other times when it seemed so difficult and tedious to move on and I wonder if He is indeed my Provider for the vision. Robert Girard puts this* so aptly, that God’s most effective difference makers
“go.. through some type of weakening process to break the outer shell of arrogance, self-righteousness and dependence on personal strength, charisma and talent. God uses failure, sickness, breakdown, sin, personal tragedy and sorrow to reduce his people to usefulness. Unless the servant of God learns to depend utterly on God and to forsake self-dependence of any kind, he or she remains too strong to be of much value.”
If our lives has been too smooth-sailing for a long time, perhaps we’ve become no threat to the enemy? (We cannot, however, rejoice in all kinds of sufferings. Especially if we suffer because of our own disobedience and foolishness. )
All things will work together for the good of those who love Him, but also only to those who are the called (or walk) according to His purpose.*
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“all God’s giants have been weak people” Hudson Taylor.
The heros of faith in Hebrews 11 recognised that God worked through weakness. They were not hyped-up, self-talked thinkers. Instead, they yielded their thinking to God, obeying His voice even though the things He says sometimes (actually very much often) seem so absurd to the human mind.
Ha. I think He is so cool.
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*Girard, When the Vision has Vanished, p 182
*Romans 8:28
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