Saturday, February 12, 2005
Sometimes things are seeming to fall apart , as much as we want to deny it.
This happened to a man of old, with the wierd name of Job. ( He must have had a lifetime govt. job.) Job is beset by loss on everyside. He withsood this onslaught of collapse because he had experience a theophany-an insight into the reality of God ! We trust not because God has offered proof, but because God has shown His face. In 'Ruthless Trust", by Brendan Manning, "perserverance in the lifelong quest for greater intamacy with Jesus, no matter how often we stumble and fall, is not only the antidote for hopelessness and despair: it is the sure path to divine certitude that overcomes all doubts, anxieties , and worries.
This is our quest in the midst of uncertain days.
This happened to a man of old, with the wierd name of Job. ( He must have had a lifetime govt. job.) Job is beset by loss on everyside. He withsood this onslaught of collapse because he had experience a theophany-an insight into the reality of God ! We trust not because God has offered proof, but because God has shown His face. In 'Ruthless Trust", by Brendan Manning, "perserverance in the lifelong quest for greater intamacy with Jesus, no matter how often we stumble and fall, is not only the antidote for hopelessness and despair: it is the sure path to divine certitude that overcomes all doubts, anxieties , and worries.
This is our quest in the midst of uncertain days.
