Devotions For The Reconciled Life

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind and said: "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?"   Job 38:1-2 "Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it." Job 40:2 So, what’s the problem? How did I get to this place of doubt?  I became self-reliant, isolated, and even began to question His very existence as yesterday's devotion covered.   This is the real problem: I think the problem lies with God, but the actual problem lies with me.  The Problem lies with us and the assumptions that we have projected on to God.  We then allow ourselves to become offended when God doesn’t perform according to our expectations.  We want God to function according to our sense of fairness.  We want God to stop being God. We want  God to do what we say. We want what we want, and we want Him to be what we expect Him to be.  This isn't God!  This is Daddy War...

When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities. Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples and said to him, "Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?" Matthew 11:1-3 "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps."  I really don't know if this is possible, but I've heard it my whole life.  It is the means that should be taken first.  Don't ask for help.  Don't look to anyone other than yourself.  That is what the world says. Self-reliance is an essential quality in the United States. What we fail to realize is that we are barefooted.  Our self-reliance is often an expression of our doubting.  Doubting His authority, power, and His ability to care for us and our needs.  In our doubt, w e often develop our own source for peace, comforted, and joy outside of God, or w e live in a state of anxie...