It takes a deep and mature faith to balance our expectations
of God with the reality of what God actually delivers.
November’s
Awakening, Day 10
God allows hardship in our lives so that our
beliefs—those handholds of faith in a troubled world—will became more and more
real to us and less and less theory.
—Greg Laurie
Anyone who has believed God to be miraculous, and
prayed earnestly for a miracle, understands the complexities of living a life
of faith while surviving the context of reality.
—Christine
Trevino, “Experience Christmas”
We are fallen human beings living in
a fallen world, trying to survive the realities of this existence,
all-the-while attempting to be positive in the knowledge that it is all just
for a time and a season. A complex balancing act indeed, yet essential to our
Christian life. We must continue to believe that God will supply all our needs
and provide necessary miracles along the way, too. But our perception of our
needs and what constitutes the miraculous is different than that of God’s
perfect understanding. We see only in part, and that dimly, skewed and tainted
by sin, but He sees and knows precisely and in unbiased clarity the truth of
what is needed and required. That is why sometimes our expectations of God
don’t seem to match the outcome in this reality. It takes faith to believe,
trust, and know assuredly, that God certainly has delivered whatever was
appropriate and at the allotted time. That is our faith reality.
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