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Published on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010 08:35 PM
I have been seeing a lot of things and being handed a lot of stuff on a silver platter, per se, that discusses what our relationship with God is supposed to look like. Things that I should already know, but that somehow have not quite made it into the way I live out my Christian life. And the difference is noted in my title. I often still live life as if it is something I can control by cause/effect as opposed to an endless list of needs for God's provision. You may think that going with the second way seems to render one rather helpless. Indeed, it does. Because we are helpless. We just like to pretend that we are not because it makes us feel better.
Now, to be truthful, the majority of the time cause/effect scenarios will hold true. If we add 1+1, we get 2. If we do A and B, we get C, pick your own situation. However, there are more times than we like to admit that this is NOT the case - times when we did A and B perfectly, but instead got something like Q, and it rattles us. We get shaken. And if our faith is still built, even marginally, on the belief that some bit of our own efforts gives us certain rights, allows us some extra favor with God, then our faith is shaken with us.
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