There is a question I get almost all the time when I am interviewed or when someone stops me to ask about the book. Â They inevitably ask why God does things the way he does them. Â God is so different from us in many ways and those differences can make things quite difficult.
It’s a bit like learning a new language.
When I initially took French 1 at Clifton Middle School I walked into a language that made no sense to me. Â My name wasn’t even said the same way. Â The first day I was taught how to ask people whose names I already knew what their names were. Â But we had to start at that basic level. Â We had to learn how to say the letters of the alphabet differently, we had to learn how to blend them into words differently, how to pronounce those words differently. Â Let’s not even get into the conjugation of the verb aller.
But over time more and more made sense. Â Over time I learned the language and what was non-sensical on the first day was an understandable language very quickly.
Learning to understand God is much the same. Â We have to relearn a good bit. Â Go back to basic things we haven’t questioned
in years and reflect on them a bit differently, but with God this time. Â And somewhere along the line we stop trying to make God do things our way and we start seeing the wisdom of doing them His way. Â Even when His way seems strange.
I am very grateful to the great folks at in Abingdon VA for the chance to speak again. Â I always love it when I can join them.
If you are interested, here is the video of that talk…
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The Apprentice Week 2 – Jim Pace, guest speaker
