“ Prayer makes no sense apart from waiting. ”
Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.
~ Mark Buchanan
Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.
One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.
But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.
