"To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways; we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation." - Oswald Chambers
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- Acts 14:21-28
- embracing uncertainty
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- What if we sought God with some ancient intensity instead of spending all our energy trying to eliminate His surprises?
- You have to do something counterintuitive if you want to reach your God-given potential and fulfill your God-given destiny.
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Silence?
Where have all the lion chasers gone?
You certainly have to wonder about Paul. What an amazing man. Could his zeal be bottled?
I am more and more amazed that we Christians -- aka "Christ followers" -- appear to lack faith in the midst of uncertainty.
If we believe what we say we believe in, then how does one account for our social behavior?
Christ turned the world upside down.
Paul, too, and the early church -- totally upside down.
Imagine so pissing off your Brothers and Sisters that they turned on you, stoned you, beat you, jailed you.
And you respond with praise music.
Imagine that God causes the earth to shake, and your bonds in prison to break. And, rather than flee, you stay.
And you convert your jailer.
Can you imagine any day after the Road to Damascus that Paul did not face uncertainty? Always, head on?
Talk about the Spirit at work.
I faced my uncertainty and then I ran the hell away from it (as predicted earlier, uncertainty is my greatest fear). Why in the world did I start this online book study? What did I think it was going to accomplish? Can we possibly reach any kind of consensus on what emerging ministry means to Peace? And the resounding answer - I don't know, i DON'T know, i don't KNOW!
So now what? I still feel this pull to figure out how to reach beyond Peace to be a blessing and to reach within Peace to encourage the peacemakers. Maybe instead of looking for some grand master plan, I need to look for the butterfly effects. The small changes, the seemingly small choices made today that magnify over time. I've seen this in the focus on prayer throughout activities at Peace, in the big idea at worship design, in adults at Sunday school willing to open up and share. I also need to empathize with others when they run up against their greatest fear instead of getting frustrated and annoyed. I hope you'll forgive me too.
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