This is part of a series of posts based on writing I did on personal retreat in October 2009. Read earlier posts in the series here:
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Oh how many times I have felt this – and I am always dumb to its intended purpose. God does not withdraw his presence, but our sense of his presence. In these times, we will to believe that he is still there and we act upon his promises and commands. This act of will, of belief, is counted to us as righteousness just as it was for Abraham.
And this he does for his own glory, so that we do not become like children of privilege who know that they are fortunate only in theory. In reality, children of privilege are never in need and are never asked to live with their own faults.
But God is the type of father who allows us to make foolish decisions in order to have us learn, in practice, what it means to trust him. He allows us these adventures in error in order to remind us that what good is found in us has only Him as its source.
