When God Interrupts Your Plans by Christina Fox (Published 13 May 2015, last accessed 14 May 2017)
"But the reality is, we often won’t have
major events in our life that cause us to trust God and obey him in some deeply
profound way. We won’t be called to build an ark or take an only child up Mount
Moriah. Rather, it’s in these small frustrations and interruptions, the little
things in our life, where we are given opportunities to rely on God, to obey
him, and to bring him glory.
Paul Tripp puts it like this:
You and I don’t live in a series of big,
dramatic moments. We don’t careen from big decision to big decision. We all
live in an endless series of little moments. The character of a life isn’t set
in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little
moments of everyday life. It’s the themes of struggles that emerge from those
little moments that reveal what’s really going on in our hearts. (Whiter Than Snow, 21) "
...
"It’s these moments
where the rubber meets the road — where our faith is stretched and we look down
to see whether we are standing on rock or sand. Do we really believe that God
is in control of all the details of our life? Do we really believe that his
grace is sufficient to get us through the day? Do we really believe that the gospel of Christ is powerful
enough not only to save
us for eternity, but also to
sustain and strengthen us in
the midst of life’s interruptions? Do we really believe that Christ is enough
to satisfy all the deepest needs of our heart?"
...
"These interruptions remind us that
we don’t have life figured out and that we can’t do it on our own. They are
like the Shepherd’s rod, pulling us back from our wandering ways, back to our
Great Shepherd. We need these
interruptions. Like nothing else, they push us to the cross of Christ where we
must remember the gospel and receive his grace and forgiveness.
It’s hard to see all the little
frustrating events and interruptions in our day as divinely placed
opportunities to grow in grace, but they are. And seeing them as such helps us
take our eyes off ourselves and put them on Christ, who cares more about our transformation
than about our daily comfort. Rather than giving us a life of ease, He
interrupts our lives with grace and shows us what we need most of all: Himself."
(My emphasis)
(My emphasis)
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