I was struck by the words of a devotional I was reading this morning. The passage was about the suffering and ultimate redemption of Job in the Old Testament...enjoy....
"Now believe it or not, we are threatened by such a free God because it takes away all of our ability to control or engineer the process. It leaves us powerless and changes the language from any language of performance or achievement to that of surrender, trust and vulnerability….this is the so-called “wildness of God.” We cannot control God by any means whatsoever, not even by our good behavior, which tends to be our natural instinct….that utter and absolute freedom of God is fortunately used totally in our favor, even though we are still afraid of it….It is called providence, forgiveness, free election or mercy…But to us, it feels like wildness-precisely because we cannot control it, manipulate it, direct it, earn it or lose it. Anyone into controlling God by his or her actions will feel very useless, impotent and ineffective."
--Richard Rohr
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