“At times, God does graciously allow us to see how he has used a difficult situation for our good. And surely we should thank him for the consolation such moments of understanding afford. But there is danger in assuming that he must give us such understanding. What will follow is a counterfeit trust, a trust in our own abilities to figure out all of God’s purposes within any particular trial, rather than a trust in God and his character as he has finally revealed it in Jesus Christ on the cross… the only one who is worthy of our trust is not ourselves; nor is it our clever ability to figure out life’s knotty questions; it is God himself.”
Mark Dever
my story::y(our) story::The Story
"My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity…that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.”
Frederick Beuchner
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January192012
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