The Bullet of Pressure: Why Do We Encounter Problems?
One of the most liberating and thrilling truths for the Christian is how to handle problems. Everyone has situations that frustrate them … everyone feels pressure … why?
One of the great revelations of Scripture is that God allows pressures to come into our lives so that He can get our attention. All of us run from truth and try to disguise our petty plans and pygmy lives with the cloak of real meaning. As creatures of the Creator we can not escape His efforts to teach us that He matters most.
A dear friend of mine tells the story of his five-year old boy who was trying to climb a tree and ended up hanging by both hands from a limb that looked real high for a small boy. His mother approached for the rescue just in time to hear him pray … “God, help me! Jesus, help me! One of you, please do something!!” I don’t know about his theology of the Trinity but he certainly know he was in a place beyond his ability to cope. The person who discovers that life is too big to cope with without God makes earth’s most thrilling discovery.
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