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I had one of the most encouraging conversations with a couple of my close friends last night. I stayed up until 11 PM!
We talked about a lot of things, mostly about marriage, leadership, and community.
The interesting thing about those things is that you can’t do any of those alone. You can’t marry yourself. And after you get married, you have to be in a community because your spouse isn’t going to be perfect. In order to be a leader, you need a follower. These things are so interlocked…I feel like it’s God’s way of saying, “Hey, you can’t do it on your own so don’t even try.”
How do you know that God is behind what you do? What are you willing to risk if he is? Everything?
I wonder if the bigger question is, “Can we trust him?”
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I don’t see the bigger question as “Can we trust him?” I, at least, and I think a lot of people, were raised to believe in a trustworhty God (Bible stories like the flood and the rainbow, Moses, etc, made me realize God would never break a promise). I think a bigger question is “How can we learn to trust him?” Sometimes I forget that the person who promised me something is a trustworthy God, and I act like it was just another person who I might not be able to trust. I know it seems like a minor distinction, bu the first question is a no-brainer to me, whereas the second is a lfie-long struggle.