Grieving, But Still Giving Thanks
I have to rest in the fact that God knows what He's doing.
The trap, is to try and figure out tragedy from an inherently limited, human point of view. It becomes a control issue if we can just figure out why this happened, then we'll be able to manage it.
Trusting God springs from buying into Bible truth, which makes clear that God is God and I am nothing. I have to release my tendency to want to protect myself through controlling everything I can possibly control, in favor of trusting God implicitly in all things.
Isaiah 55 says 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts'.
The comparison between God's ways and mine, of His thoughts and mine, is the difference between heaven and earth. It's huge. And I either believe that God is good and He is in control, or I don't. That's not easy, but it's simple.
From Radical Gratitude by Ellen Vaughn
The trap, is to try and figure out tragedy from an inherently limited, human point of view. It becomes a control issue if we can just figure out why this happened, then we'll be able to manage it.
Trusting God springs from buying into Bible truth, which makes clear that God is God and I am nothing. I have to release my tendency to want to protect myself through controlling everything I can possibly control, in favor of trusting God implicitly in all things.
Isaiah 55 says 'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts'.
The comparison between God's ways and mine, of His thoughts and mine, is the difference between heaven and earth. It's huge. And I either believe that God is good and He is in control, or I don't. That's not easy, but it's simple.
From Radical Gratitude by Ellen Vaughn
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