Monday, June 29, 2009

Why...or Why Not?

"Why" is not a concept God shares much about, is it? He always just says "do" or "be", asking us to accept that we can't do much to change it. I guess if we knew why we would try to change things, and thereby seize control, and thereby diminish the value of faith, which is not necessarily "willing" something good to happen by believing it will. We would blame ourselves for failure, we would argue for what we thought best, if we knew "why".

Real faith in God is believing we will be ok because our faith is in God, not the result. Just my pitiful understanding based on my own life.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but pushing through the fear to keep going.
Faith is not the absence of doubt, but pushing through the doubt to keep going.
Faith in God does not guarantee a good result, but that we will be ok either way.
The will of God is not a script that we should play by, but the things we over which we have no control.
Free will is not a license to do as we please, but the parts of God's will He gives us to do or not do..the "keep going".
Isn't it interesting that He gives us free will to love him or not. Or to love someone else or not.
We need a lot of courage and faith to manage free will.

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