Mar. 19th, 2003

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Point to Ponder: Life is a test and a trust.

Verse to Remember: "Unless you are faithful in small matters, you won't be faithful in large ones." Luke 16:10a (NLT)

Question to Consider: What has happened to me recently that I now realize was a test from God? What are the greatest matters God has entrusted to me?

I'm having a little trouble with this one. I don't think God dumps us into situations, like some kind of cosmic drill sargeant putting us through the spiritual equivalent of a Marine Corps obstacle course. I don't think God "throws things" at us, or makes bad things happen to us to test our loyalty.

I do think we face challenges. I do think we face choices. It is challenging to live faithfully in these times, and difficult to choose from among the many things that may all look like viable options (or for that matter, from the many things that all look like equally bad choices). I think God allows us to be tested, not that God designs the test like some kind of cosmic SAT for us to take and pass in order for him to love us. And I think God allows us to choose freely how we will respond to the challenges and choices we face...and continues to love us, and to gently invite us to keep growing, keep trying, keep looking.

I'm not entirely sure what the greatest matters are that God has entrusted to me. I know some of the ministries I've been given - to write, to sing; to teach, apparently, at the Hearthstone Paths conference in October in Maryland. I'm not sure we can know which matters are greatest. I think maybe it's more important to treat all matters entrusted to us, however trivial-seeming, as God's matters. Great or small, I think that matters more.
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These little tests are so cute...silly, but cute.






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