When you stop trying to control your life and instead allow your anxieties and problems to bring you to God in prayer, you shift from worrying to watching. You watch God weave his patterns in the story of your life. Instead of trying to be out front, designing your life, you realize you are inside God’s drama. As you wait, you begin to see him work, and your life begins to sparkle with wonder. You are learning to trust again.
– Paul E. Miller in A Praying Life
I have been thinking about the question I left yesterday – “How does God’s faithfulness spur us on to love God more?” I think it has to do in part with trust. The more I see God’s faithfulness, the more I trust him, and the stronger our loving relationship becomes. It is similar to marriage. Unfaithfulness of one spouse (in any number of ways), will make it more difficult for the other spouse to trust and hence hurts the relationship. But faithfulness lived out day by day by one spouse makes it easier for the other to trust and hence stregthens the relationship. There is something attractive and delightful about people who are trustworthy. We want to be around them. Our great need is to recognize God’s daily faithfulness so that we might trust him more, delight in him more, and so love him more. That is my stab at the question. What do you think?
Brian J. Mikul 