Comments on: Trusting Without Understanding https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/02/18/trusting-without-understanding/ The raw writings of a real pastor. Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:10:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Josey https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/02/18/trusting-without-understanding/#comment-53 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:56:13 +0000 http://www.wanderingshepherd.org/?p=164#comment-53 As Chas says, sometimes it depends on our starting point as to how we interpret God’s love. If we look at a small point in time, we can find many flaws. When we look at a larger part of the continuum, we gain perspective of the overarching grace.

]]> By: chas https://www.wanderingshepherd.org/2011/02/18/trusting-without-understanding/#comment-50 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:32:36 +0000 http://www.wanderingshepherd.org/?p=164#comment-50 “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

The remarkable thing is not that God allows suffering – I have no hope of understanding why He does that in this life. The remarkable, indeed revolutionary, thing is that He embraced the human condition, became the friend of whores and thieves and religious zealots (and probably gays), suffered as we (collectively) suffer and died for the sake of a love that is no more comprehensible to our self-centered, stunted reasonings than is the existence of suffering and evil.

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