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“Do you bother God with your persistent prayer?
God wants you to bother him as it opens up a new view of God. This is what God wants. You see it as bothering, but God sees it as a relationship. So is God bothered?
How do your trust issues change when you realize that God wants to be bothered by you?”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
God wants you to bother him as it opens up a new view of God. This is what God wants. You see it as bothering, but God sees it as a relationship. So is God bothered?
How do your trust issues change when you realize that God wants to be bothered by you?”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“Love will smash your heart. To love is to put yourself in vulnerability. With vulnerability comes the possibility that you will have your heart smashed. This is a 100 percent possibility.
Nothing will change that percentage. As a Christian, you are not exempt from pain.
God is always faithful. That is also 100 percent. God always redeems our pain. And pain has a Holy Spirit magic way of making you beautiful.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
Nothing will change that percentage. As a Christian, you are not exempt from pain.
God is always faithful. That is also 100 percent. God always redeems our pain. And pain has a Holy Spirit magic way of making you beautiful.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“I define bravery as your decisions to actually trust God. That is full of vulnerability because with God there is not the guarantee of the controlled outcome you want.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“Waiting requires patience. There are three words in that sentence that nobody likes.
Patience is not passivity. To be patient doesn’t mean you get to be idle and wait for something to change. I don’t get to “let go and let God.” I can’t “easy button” this to God. As if I actually could. I must stay in the tension.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
Patience is not passivity. To be patient doesn’t mean you get to be idle and wait for something to change. I don’t get to “let go and let God.” I can’t “easy button” this to God. As if I actually could. I must stay in the tension.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“By choosing me you are choosing to have a life that is a little less comfortable because of me.
This seems like something to be avoided.
To live vulnerably like this seems to be something to be avoided.”
― I Wish I Could Take Away Your Pain
This seems like something to be avoided.
To live vulnerably like this seems to be something to be avoided.”
― I Wish I Could Take Away Your Pain
“Your trust issues come from your hope being broken. You have learned it is safer not to hope. It is safer to beat vulnerability to the punch and strive to control your surroundings.
It is safer to treat hope as a wish. Hope then becomes something ethereal that you wish upon a star and then you continue on controlling your outcome. Or holding steadfast to hope–which really is your version of that “supposed-to” you want to see happen–as a symbol of your faith.
This is not hope. Hope involves more of you and your soul than wishing it up to God. (Look out vulnerability!) It is easier to believe you can “easy button” this to God but a life of hope involves your guttiness.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
It is safer to treat hope as a wish. Hope then becomes something ethereal that you wish upon a star and then you continue on controlling your outcome. Or holding steadfast to hope–which really is your version of that “supposed-to” you want to see happen–as a symbol of your faith.
This is not hope. Hope involves more of you and your soul than wishing it up to God. (Look out vulnerability!) It is easier to believe you can “easy button” this to God but a life of hope involves your guttiness.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“How can you trust God who is not true to his word? Isn’t that what the Bible is?
Because God is larger than a platitude. A platitude is sweet, concise, and fits on a throw pillow. God is larger than that. With the sufferings in my life, I need more than a platitude. I need this Larger Story God I’ve come to know.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
Because God is larger than a platitude. A platitude is sweet, concise, and fits on a throw pillow. God is larger than that. With the sufferings in my life, I need more than a platitude. I need this Larger Story God I’ve come to know.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“God loves to meet us in that messy middle of the tunnel. And at the end of the tunnel, as well as the beginning of the tunnel.
I’ve learned that it is in that messy middle that God becomes particularly “loud” in our lives.
God never tells me to get over my emotions and just get past them. God meets me there in my emotional mess. Sometimes I’m so emotional I believe God has abandoned me. Until I get through that tunnel and I realize how present God always was.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
I’ve learned that it is in that messy middle that God becomes particularly “loud” in our lives.
God never tells me to get over my emotions and just get past them. God meets me there in my emotional mess. Sometimes I’m so emotional I believe God has abandoned me. Until I get through that tunnel and I realize how present God always was.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“I feel so alone.
Shame survives by convincing me I am alone.
Whether my pain was caused by my bad decision or whether something tragic happened to me, shame is loud in my head.
All of God’s promises that I know do not quiet this shame.
Shame feels comforting when I feel so helpless.
Because it is easier to feel shame than it is to feel helpless.
Shame is something I think I have control over.
Except shame lies.”
― I Wish I Could Take Away Your Pain
Shame survives by convincing me I am alone.
Whether my pain was caused by my bad decision or whether something tragic happened to me, shame is loud in my head.
All of God’s promises that I know do not quiet this shame.
Shame feels comforting when I feel so helpless.
Because it is easier to feel shame than it is to feel helpless.
Shame is something I think I have control over.
Except shame lies.”
― I Wish I Could Take Away Your Pain
“Waiting is trusting that God has our larger story as you have trust issues.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“We often don’t have the patience to wait. We want some control over the outcome. We want to know the outcome. We believe deeply that if we could just know the outcome we will make it through. We treat God like a vending machine with an expected outcome after we put our something in. When we do this our relationship with God is transactional.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“Complain to God, just don’t let him go. God is okay about us complaining to him. This is way better than just complaining about God. Do you see the difference?”
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“You wish you could go back to a time when God wasn’t confusing--when God and everything made sense.
Your questions matter. Your fears matter. Your confusion matters. Your anger matters. Embrace the vulnerability of them and find out who God is. Even your fears and doubts become opportunities for encountering God, if you let them draw us close to God.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
Your questions matter. Your fears matter. Your confusion matters. Your anger matters. Embrace the vulnerability of them and find out who God is. Even your fears and doubts become opportunities for encountering God, if you let them draw us close to God.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
“Holy tension” is the discomfort of being stuck in between but knowing that if you can make a brave vulnerable decision something holy is going to happen.”
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
― Trust Issues With God: Because Life Is Unfair: Bible Study, With Video Access
