C. S. Lewis wrote, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” For me the difficulty has always been in knowing exactly what I am to learn from the pain and what action to take. Some pain …
If we do not trust Him there are no wise choices at all. There is only fending for ourselves—taking what we can while we can. To me, this sounds too much like atheism. And I am not an atheist. If we do not trust Him then there is no reason …
Without the incarnation we are alone in our plight. We are left here as orphans to fend for ourselves. Without the incarnation we might question that God knew what it was like to be beaten to be hated and shunned. We may doubt He knows what it’s like to be …
If we do not see God as holy it is because we do not perceive our own wretchedness, do not perceive the depth of our own sinfulness. If we do not see God as holy it is because the clothes we wear, the people we know and our own ability …