Must we always know? Is God’s sovereign care and grace dependent on what I can or cannot grasp? Of course not. Sometimes there isn’t something specific to learn, but through circumstances God is quietly and lovingly nudging us to keep trusting him and looking to him for grace.
When I’m rushing, my quiet times easily become superficial. I repeat the same prayers. I land on the same predictable applications. I go through the motions. It becomes a spiritual version of fast food: quick, convenient, but ultimately unsatisfying.
I’ve noticed when I respond to the Bible’s teaching with thanking, praising and delighting in God, then my heart is truly stirred ... Confession and obedience are more natural and heartfelt coming after this reorientation of my passions.
Robyn Bain helps us with approaching the complex parts of life, using what we know about God and about ourselves , from God’s word.
Why did the early Christians pervasively undermine so much of what their Roman neighbours would have considered ‘religious’? The central answer is Jesus.
