Trusting God When You Don't Understand | The Pen Doesn't Question the Author | Potter and the Clay

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I've learned that trusting God isn't proven when things are easy. And I love this illustration from the Bible. It says, "God is the potter and where the clay." Now, I've never worked with pottery before. So, here's how I think about it. God is the author and we're the pen. Can you imagine a pin questioning a writer mids sentence saying, "I don't like this word.

I don't like where this sentence is going." The author would say, "Well, you don't know where I'm going with the story." And that's exactly our position with God. As painful as one moment is, it's not the entire story. It's one part of a story that God sees completely and that we only see one page. That doesn't make the pain smaller. What it does mean is I have to be reminded of how big God actually is.

I ask him to remind me. And when you're carrying grief and anger, you need to be reminded of it, too. Proverbs says it so plainly. Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. And do not rely on your own understanding. Not some of your heart. Not once you understand the why, but all of it, including the ones you haven't made sense of yet.

I don't fully understand why God let my best friend die the way he did. And I may never get the answer this side of eternity, but I do know how this story ends because God has told us he will wipe away every tear from their eyes. And there will be no more death or sorrow, crying or pain. All these things are gone forever. Revelation 21:4, "The story isn't finished today, and God has never lost the plot, even when I couldn't see it." And that's what it means to trust God with everything.

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