tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400340423678181828.post6389090147222406371..comments2023-10-04T18:01:43.464-05:00Comments on Dads Teach the Bible: In Common, ThoughtsMike Cunninghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05971102076711413290noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400340423678181828.post-25068346467989217292016-05-28T09:53:52.031-05:002016-05-28T09:53:52.031-05:00Terrific reflections! I especially appreciate the ...Terrific reflections! I especially appreciate the observation that trusting God is a sustained practice. It takes time to develop, like any discipline - and it is a discipline. God allows (or maybe life just presents) opportunities to grow our trust; the challenges become greater as life goes on.<br /><br />As I write this, I think I just put it backwards. Because we live in a fallen, broken and rebellious word the whole system "is rigged" against us. Jesus clearly predicted it and so does our experience tell us that we walk upstream in this world. God faithfully protects us from more than we can take, and His grace is always sufficient (regardless of how I often "feel" about it). But He also faithfully allows the challenges and difficulties to increase to strengthen our faith (trust) "muscles."<br /><br />My current experience is that when the big crises come, it reveals significant cracks in my foundation. I see ever more clearly that without His enabling grace I would not trust Him at all. Only He is faithful.chuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04631165961382647198noreply@blogger.com