Walking with God
Prelude,
The Power of Assumptions
(excerpt) "I ran into an old acquaintance at the bookstore today. Actually, i was nearly out the door when he called my name, so i turned back in to say hello and chat for a few moments. He seemed...not well. Half the man he used to be. I wondered why. I expected him to say that he had suffered some major loss. A loved one, i feared. Or maybe it was a prolonged illness. Not that he was visibly deteriorating as some do in the late stages of cancer. But there was something about his countenance, a loss of some essential part of himself. You know the look. Many people have it, actually. It's a confused and disheartened look. As we talked, it became clear that he had simply been eroded by a number of confusing years strung together by disappointment.
As i left the store, i found myself thinking, He held such promise. What happened?
It has to do with assumptions."
--John Eldredge
Am I
the one with that confused and disheartened look? Has the stress and confusion
of the past 3 weeks taken such a toll? I believe it has. I look back at the
last 3 weeks and see wreckage. And, although I’d like to ignore it, it really
does have to do with assumptions. Or maybe its just 1 assumption…
Maybe
it has just been the 1 assumption that A+B=C; that because I love God, He will
bless whatever my choices are. And here lies the shortcoming: I have forgotten
that there is a whole lot more to my relationship with God than just trying to
be a good person.
Father, I want to know Your voice and Follow
YOU.
(John
10:1-4, 9-10)
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