But a Sure and Steady Anchor.
(From an email I sent months ago - a rough and muddled analogy but the picture I keep getting in my brain):
"I have often felt in the last year like God is constantly dangling carrots in my face, giving me a little bit of hope to hold onto but then as I'm just about to grab it, He pulls it away. But, in the midst of that, I've been learning that I don't think God wants me to disregard those carrots or become dejected when He doesn't give them yet. Rather I am learning to be grateful for them, because I have to trust He is the good , hope-giving God who is leading me to a feast...and the Kindness of God is that He knows my finite, sinful, frail self and He uses my little "carrot" leadings (knowing it's the only way I would have carried on) to just give me enough hope to lure me to where He needs me to be. But, ultimately, My hope is in the Hope-Giver....not the carrots."
(From an email I sent months ago - a rough and muddled analogy but the picture I keep getting in my brain):
"I have often felt in the last year like God is constantly dangling carrots in my face, giving me a little bit of hope to hold onto but then as I'm just about to grab it, He pulls it away. But, in the midst of that, I've been learning that I don't think God wants me to disregard those carrots or become dejected when He doesn't give them yet. Rather I am learning to be grateful for them, because I have to trust He is the good , hope-giving God who is leading me to a feast...and the Kindness of God is that He knows my finite, sinful, frail self and He uses my little "carrot" leadings (knowing it's the only way I would have carried on) to just give me enough hope to lure me to where He needs me to be. But, ultimately, My hope is in the Hope-Giver....not the carrots."