“Due to this fact let those that endure in line with the desire of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a trustworthy Creator” (1 Peter 4:19).
LIFE IN THIS WORLD PRESENTS US WITH SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS. Many issues are arduous to determine, and far that occurs is difficult to elucidate. Our Father has revealed the solutions to the entire questions we have to know (Deuteronomy 29:29), however He has left many different issues unexplained. For now, He asks us to belief Him sufficient to obey His directions and take it without any consideration that each query has a very good reply, whether or not we all know the reply or not.
Generally we make the error of considering we will’t have any peace of thoughts if we don’t know the way every little thing works and what’s going to occur. However God affords a distinct type of safety, one grounded not in our information however relatively in our belief. Paul’s confidence, for instance, got here not from having each query answered however from understanding the particular person of God: “I do know whom I’ve believed and am persuaded that He is ready to maintain what I’ve dedicated to Him till that Day” (2 Timothy 1:12).
Now the type of religion Paul had was not blind religion or mere credulity. He was a authorized scholar, and it’s uncertain that he would have come to belief God as he did with out being proven proof that God might be trusted. However having acknowledged the facility of the proof, Paul was prepared to stay his life (and it was a tough life) on the idea that God would deal with him.
Once we attain the purpose the place we consider the proof for God’s trustworthiness is compelling, then we’re able to do what Peter talked about in at the moment’s textual content: commit ourselves to Him. Within the confidence that our God is a “trustworthy” Creator, we will make the calculated resolution to belief Him — particularly in conditions the place we now have some questions we don’t know the solutions to.
In all of this, the longer term have to be factored into our considering. As a factor that’s “unseen,” the longer term is without doubt one of the major issues that religion offers with. Religion doesn’t ignore questions or reduce their significance, but it surely does train persistence. Religion is prepared to attend and see what occurs. Historical past is, in spite of everything, a narrative, and in a narrative, the conflicts don’t often get resolved till the finish.
“Religion makes the discords of the current the harmonies of the longer term” (Robert Collyer).
Gary Henry — WordPoints.com + AreYouaChristian.com
