Topic
Trusting God
There is a distance between what a man says he believes about God and what he does when the answer does not come. These letters sit in that gap.
Habakkuk asking how long. A view of God that has quietly shrunk, and shows up as anxiety. The difference between knowing the doctrine of God’s sovereignty and surrendering to it while circumstances stay unresolved. Meditating on Scripture rather than reading it quickly and moving on.
None of this is about trying harder. It is about whether the God you are trusting is as big as the one Scripture describes.
12 letters
- No. 04
Attention is a choice
Why meditating on Scripture forms a man more than reading it, drawing on Psalm 119.
- No. 27
Waiting to feel ready is its own kind of disobedience.
Reading Scripture and praying when the feeling is absent, and how an election night exposed misplaced trust.
- No. 28
There’s a thief in your house. You probably let him in.
Anxiety in Matthew 6 and its two roots, misplaced treasure and a view of God that has shrunk.
- No. 32
Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief.
Why Jesus' phrase little faith points to a shrunken view of God, not a shortage of belief.
- No. 33
You say you believe God is sovereign. But do you really?
The gap between head knowledge and heart surrender, drawn from Jerry Bridges' book Trusting God and Isaiah 55.
- No. 34
How long, O Lord? And why the silence is not the answer you think it is.
Habakkuk's unanswered questions about injustice, and why a bigger view of God comes instead of resolved circumstances.
- No. 35
Is God good when the circumstances aren't?
Romans 8:28 honestly: the good God is working toward is not your comfort — and why that is better news than it sounds.
- No. 36
If God is sovereign, what's left for you to do?
How God's sovereignty and a man's responsibility work together, from Nehemiah 4:9, Acts 27, and Proverbs 21:31.
- No. 37
What if you missed God's will?
How God guides a believer's decisions, including the wrong ones, from Proverbs 16:9 and Psalm 139:16.
- No. 38
When you're afraid, what do you reach for?
Answering fear with trust in God instead of self-reliance, and why it isn't meant to be done alone, from Psalm 56 and 2 Corinthians 1:4.
- No. 39
If God chooses, can a man blame Him?
How God's choosing in salvation and a man's responsibility to respond to the gospel fit together, from Romans 9, Acts 2:23 and Philippians 2:12–13.
- No. 40
If God chooses, why open your mouth?
Why God's choosing is a reason to share the gospel, not a reason to stay quiet, from Romans 10, Acts 18 and Matthew 28.