Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)
11 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and
assurance about what we do not see.
Our faith is tested in something we cannot see or touch.
But in our hearts we have assurance the things we believe are real and true. True faith is answered when there are no
explanations.
I still don't understand, nearly 10 years later. At least
I don't understand why the Lord allowed my sons to be afflicted with infantile
bilateral striatal necrosis. I don't understand why Jonathan died or why
Christopher lived. Today he's 16 and nearly totally recovered.
All I understand is this: life is a riddle, which God
wants me to experience but not necessarily solve. When I was struggling to
solve it, I found (1 Corinthians 13:12), which only makes sense in the original
Greek: "For now we see (or understand) through a mirror, in a
riddle," the apostle Paul wrote, "but then face to face."
Modern Christians sometimes rush to put God's truth into
little boxes, neatly systematized, categorized, organized, and principle-ized,
when God's perspective on suffering is too big for any of that. While for some
"spirituality" is defined by what you know, God may be more concerned
with how you handle what you cannot know.
A riddle loses its mystery and its power, even perhaps
its significance, once it is solved. By keeping us in our riddle (every
person's riddle is unique) God is helping us learn to walk by faith, and not by
sight.
[David Biebel, author. Men of Integrity, Vol. 1, no. 2.]
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