Growth, maturity, and courageous faith seem to grow in intensity for most of us over time. Inch by inch in the ordinary, we learn to trust God rather than ourselves. I’m learning that if God is faithful in the small things, He will be faithful and trustworthy she the storms arrive. Even through pain and hard times, He will give grace to handle the issue. It’s a good thing we do not know what is ahead on the path, allowing us to trust Him with our unknown and confusion.
As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name.
–Philip Yancey
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