When life happens and hard questions and difficulties arise they sometimes leave more difficult questions than answers.
I was listening to the radio this morning and they were reading the verse about how God takes care of us...because we are his highest creation and if he takes care of the birds of the air, won't he take care of us? They were discussing this and why we have such a hard time believing that God truly will take care of us. I wanted to call in and say...DUH...is it not obvious why we have a problem resting in God taking care of us. Look around...the less fortunate ones that have health issues, financial difficulties, or accidents that they had nothing to do with, necessarily, Children that are abused, taken advantage of, hurt by some offender, or killed by some disease, or some inhuman being...those things do not fit our idea of being well taken care of, now do they? The hurt and pain in the world do not translate into "care-taking" by anyone's definition. Only as we can trust God to take care of us amidst these things, can we lay back in his arms and allow him to carry us through them. Sometimes that's a tall order. But a view to a different perspective might be in order. We are looking from our earthly view. God is looking long-term and he will sacrifice everything to bring us through the dark valley to grow into who He designed us to be. Larry Crabb suggests it is first-order desire vs second-order desires. Sometimes we do not even know we have a second-order desire. . . one that God is in charge of to mold us to be the person He created us to be. God's view is looking through a different lens with a view to maturity, trust, and faith, not a view of necessarily getting what we want.
I was listening to the radio this morning and they were reading the verse about how God takes care of us...because we are his highest creation and if he takes care of the birds of the air, won't he take care of us? They were discussing this and why we have such a hard time believing that God truly will take care of us. I wanted to call in and say...DUH...is it not obvious why we have a problem resting in God taking care of us. Look around...the less fortunate ones that have health issues, financial difficulties, or accidents that they had nothing to do with, necessarily, Children that are abused, taken advantage of, hurt by some offender, or killed by some disease, or some inhuman being...those things do not fit our idea of being well taken care of, now do they? The hurt and pain in the world do not translate into "care-taking" by anyone's definition. Only as we can trust God to take care of us amidst these things, can we lay back in his arms and allow him to carry us through them. Sometimes that's a tall order. But a view to a different perspective might be in order. We are looking from our earthly view. God is looking long-term and he will sacrifice everything to bring us through the dark valley to grow into who He designed us to be. Larry Crabb suggests it is first-order desire vs second-order desires. Sometimes we do not even know we have a second-order desire. . . one that God is in charge of to mold us to be the person He created us to be. God's view is looking through a different lens with a view to maturity, trust, and faith, not a view of necessarily getting what we want.
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