posted by Jules @ Friday, December 01, 2006
Friday, December 01, 2006
Why is it so easy to forget the things we already know to be true? I pursue an answer from God and then when I receive it, I am not happy. And suddenly I am no longer certain that indeed it was God who was speaking in the first place. Oh, foolish human nature-- always looking to the short term solution. Without some degree of sacrifice, we may never understand the richness of the blessing of God.
"The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever."
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2 Comments:
It's not that we're not happy, but it's that we're not happy AND thus we ask again, "just to make sure" because we probably didn't want to do it in the first place.
Yep, you are right. But in the midst of this state of "not happy"-ness, and the "just making sure", there is this seed of hope that the joy will be all the greater in trusting that His ways are higher than ours. What I want right now is nothing close to what He wants for me in the longterm. So maybe a little like Jonah, I will grudgingly obey. At least a better option than deluding myself into temporary solace with even more painful fallout.
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