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For the past several weeks, we have been woking through John Ortberg’s material entitled, Soul Keeping.
Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
Sometimes, I just want to scream. And I don’t mean the ordinary everyday kind, those prompted by insubordinate children or rush-hour traffic on the BA.
“He looked out at the Pacific Ocean on night watch and saw that religions were too small to capture the mystery.” It’s one sentence in the account of a man’s life.
From the little I know of him, I’m pretty sure Isaiah Austin would tell you that if not for the big “why” in his life — if his was just the story of a guy persevering through trials — then it would really be a pretty sad story, and not one worth hearing about.
It’s the contentment. It’s the faith to not try and force anything, but to trust that what will come, will come, and it will be what it will be.