By Route 365 on
4/9/2010 6:25 AM
by Jeremy Wolcott
Ever feel like Job? You know, like you’ve done the best you can with everything you have, like you’ve been faithful and obedient to God, and everything seems to fall apart anyway? And, on top of that, God doesn’t seem interested in intervening—or even answering—when you need him?
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By Route 365 on
4/8/2010 5:54 AM
by Jeremy Wolcott
Stories like the one we read yesterday have a tendency to leave a bad taste in my mouth. I think it’s really just due to the smallness of my own faith, honestly, but when I get done with a passage like that one, I find myself wishing that God would come down more clearly on one side or the other – that the text would indicate in some “obvious” fashion whether what David was doing was okay or not.
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By Route 365 on
4/7/2010 5:13 AM
by Jeremy Wolcott
I'll come right out and admit it: today's reading is tough. I find a lot of times that it's too easy to look at the life of a “hero of faith” like David, as recorded in the Bible, and say, “he did X, and I should too.” Or, when they make obvious mistakes, sometimes instead it's simple enough to look at them and conclude, “they did Y, and evidently I shouldn't.” But you'd have a hard time taking that tack with this passage.
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By Route 365 on
4/6/2010 5:00 AM
by Jeremy Wolcott
Every so often when I stumble across verses like James 1.2-5—where James encourages his readers to rejoice in the testing of their faith because it will produce maturity and character—I find myself tempted to react skeptically. After all, looking back over the moments I'd call “testing of my faith” in my life, it's hard to identify any areas where I could say my faith specifically grew. In my more cynical moments, it's a lot easier for me to believe that testing of one's faith only produces pain, not necessarily development.
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By Route 365 on
4/5/2010 6:28 AM
by Jeremy Wolcott
Sometimes (okay, really often) I wonder about the decisions I make. You know, whether I picked the right career path (I mean, after all, does anybody else really care—or does it even matter—what the axial form factor of neutrino-nucleus interactions is?), whether I'm even in the right place (I grew up in New England, and, as they say, though you can take the boy out of the country, you can't take the country out of the boy), whether I should've invited the guy I share my office with to the Christmas services... And, judging from the things I hear at my small group, at church, and at G.A.P. large group meetings, I'm not the only one. I don't think I'm alone in worrying from time to time that one bad choice might royally screw up my life – and maybe other peoples' lives to boot.
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