When you trust someone, you either wait for their response or you give something for them to keep for you.
As I continued to read the book Down-to-earth Spirituality, I thought about Abraham. He could give his son on the altar to God, he could leave his homeland for God, yet he could not wait for God to give him Issac.
After thinking about the stuff that happened in my life, I concluded that relinquishing something you got to God is easier than waiting for God's response.
I can think of two reasons,
1. When you can give something up, that means you already have something in your own hands to give up.
2. When you wait for things to happen, the time period is indefinite. It can be 1 day, 1 year or 100 years. It may not even happen in your own lifetime.
Walter Bruggemann sums up the matter:
There are no natural guarantees for the future and no way to secure the inheritance of the family. It must trust only to the power of God... Promise requires an end to grasping and certitude and an embrace of precariousness. It is only God who gives life. Any pretense that the future is secured by rights or claims of the family is a deception.
As I continued to read the book Down-to-earth Spirituality, I thought about Abraham. He could give his son on the altar to God, he could leave his homeland for God, yet he could not wait for God to give him Issac.
After thinking about the stuff that happened in my life, I concluded that relinquishing something you got to God is easier than waiting for God's response.
I can think of two reasons,
1. When you can give something up, that means you already have something in your own hands to give up.
2. When you wait for things to happen, the time period is indefinite. It can be 1 day, 1 year or 100 years. It may not even happen in your own lifetime.
Walter Bruggemann sums up the matter:
There are no natural guarantees for the future and no way to secure the inheritance of the family. It must trust only to the power of God... Promise requires an end to grasping and certitude and an embrace of precariousness. It is only God who gives life. Any pretense that the future is secured by rights or claims of the family is a deception.
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