I don’t know how to articulate, at the moment, what hope remains when there are some problems Jesus won’t solve, but it’s there. It’s there for believers even when Jesus doesn’t solve believer’s particular or immediate problems. It’s not hope in a human solution to problems when it seems Jesus “won’t budge”, it’s a hope despite the problems in a world that seems so often to be run by cruel fortune rather than a just and exacting God.
Maybe for me it’s a general gratitude to God for giving me the experience of being alive at all. Maybe it’s a comfort in not being alone when I’m hurt, a something that stays me even while I’m lonely; a comfort in being reminded that I am only what I am, a limited human; or maybe it’s the possible promise [I am still uncertain myself about this one, in comparison to the stance of *cino] of complete forgiveness.
CaptainBako
Jun 24 2003
02:55 pm
I don’t know how to articulate, at the moment, what hope remains when there are some problems Jesus won’t solve, but it’s there. It’s there for believers even when Jesus doesn’t solve believer’s particular or immediate problems. It’s not hope in a human solution to problems when it seems Jesus “won’t budge”, it’s a hope despite the problems in a world that seems so often to be run by cruel fortune rather than a just and exacting God.
Maybe for me it’s a general gratitude to God for giving me the experience of being alive at all. Maybe it’s a comfort in not being alone when I’m hurt, a something that stays me even while I’m lonely; a comfort in being reminded that I am only what I am, a limited human; or maybe it’s the possible promise [I am still uncertain myself about this one, in comparison to the stance of *cino] of complete forgiveness.