And finally, in making
sense of life, it does come down to trusting God. It is, as Paul says in Romans 1:17, “faith
from first to last.” Trust that whether
or not it is clear to you things may well be working out exactly as they
should. And sometimes even when things
seem tough, you might just stop and ask, “What if this were all alright?” All the things that are troubling, confounding
and perplexing you, what if these were all alright? God loves you. Let nothing stand between you and the God who
is love, not your brightest days or your darkest nights, no doctrinal
understanding (or rather misunderstanding) and no life experience, no tragedy,
no setback. Trust God. Let everything be. Let it all go, and let it all come back to
you.
Rise above yourself,
above the things you’re still stuck in,
whatever it is you feel you can’t be happy with, and find the real story of
which your life story is a part. Rise
above the petty dramas you keep telling yourself, the little stories that make
you miserable, and find the large story of which your life story is a
part. But make sure it’s large, that
it’s big enough for all the true and loving stories of the world. And then, knowing this, you’ll see what needs
to be done that you can do that just may not happen unless you start doing it.
Jesus once said that
he came so that we might have life and have it to the full (John 10:10). One caution I would make: If the way you
understand something restricts or diminishes life, it’s not a principle of
Jesus – at least not as it’s currently understood. The call of Jesus is always to life, to get
over yourself, to get unstuck from the things that hold you back, and to begin
to live a life animated by trust, animated by the kind of invincibility that
comes from trusting God and the life that he is giving you.
But where will you learn this and with whom?
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