Day 116 - Questions
Scripture focus: When the wicked die, their hopes die with them, for they rely on their own feeble strength. Proverbs 11:7 NLT
"There is proof of God in all this, but we've been looking in the wrong place." Soul Cravings, Erwin McManus, entry 7, Meaning.
No news flash there! We can't even figure out when we're thirsty!
"Before you can find God in the answers, you have to find him in the questions." Soul Cravings, Erwin McManus, entry 7, Meaning.
"Daddy, why did God pull the plug?" is a fine place to start.
Implicit in the question is the believing. God does stuff. God is in charge. God can and will pull the plug if he so chooses. We may never find all the answers to our God questions, but what we will inevitably discover is that sometimes God answers our question with a question, "Do you trust me?"
Our Myrtle Beach vacation was a grand adventure - and Scott soon acclimated to the rhythmical plug-pulling of God that we adults refer to as the ebb and flow of tides.
"While we may disagree on what we believe in and we may argue violently about what is true, what we can't escape is that we are all on the same quest and our soul craving is to find something we can believe in." Soul Cravings, Erwin McManus, entry 7, Meaning.
My prayer is that we never grow so acclimated to our world that we become insensitive to the proof of God, often found in all the "wrong" people and places.
Recommended reading: Judges 4 and 5 in the morning; Psalm 93 and 94 in the evening
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