Monday, April 12, 2010

Standing on the Desk

Do you remember the scene in Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams gets his students to stand on the desk to demonstrate the need to look at things from another perspective?

A powerful visual aid!
We too, need to allow God to shift our perspectives to help us deal with life on earth.
To remind us that we are "seated in heavenly realms in Christ" even while we are living out our lives here.

We all want dynamic faith.
To have that certain knowledge that God can be utterly trusted -
Even when nothing seems to be going according to plan and it looks as though there is no way forward.
And we want it to descend on us from heaven, gift wrapped - complete with "feelings of faith"

The trouble is that faith often grows by way of tests and trials.
We usually only begin to lean on God after we have depleted all our natural resources.
We don't even realise that most of the time, but He knows.
And we need to know it too.
And so He teaches us to look at those trying circumstances with new eyes if we are willing.

Is God perhaps using the hard and sad things of this fallen world as His opportunity to show His love and power towards us who believe?
Is God answering our prayers for increased faith by taking us beyond what we can manage on our own?
Whittling away at our independence and missplaced self confidence?
Wouldn't it be worth feeling helpless if it made God more real to us?
Let's be willing to" stand on the desk" in times of hardship, and see them as a gateway to increased knowledge of the reality of our Lord.



1 comment:

Lynette Jacobs said...

Beautiful post Allie...so glad you are breathing life into this precious blog of yours.

We don't always want to know that faith grows in the most trying circumstances and that we grow stronger and closer to our Lord in these times...we long for the time when there would be no more pain and no more tears.