I wrote a blog post here about reading Dr. Lee Warren’s book I’ve Seen the End of You. Here are some thoughts from that book for you to think about this week:
With the prism of faith, we see only blurred lines of pain, disease, and disappointment.
Faith aligns what you think you’re seeing with reality. It shifts your focus from the problem to the promise.
Faith allows you to see it’s okay to have doubt but we doubt the doubt more than the promise of the One who never breaks His word.
Faith doesn’t keep us from having problems. (My note: Hear that all you health/wealth/prosperity (un)gospel teachers?) It just gives a clearer view of how God is responding to them.
Doubt is not fatal if we recognize it for what it is: a smudge on the lens. When we realize that, wipe it clear, and put the glasses back on, we’ll be okay.
The things we think we know are more like cataracts. They can obscure and blind us to the truth of God’s work around us that is plain to see when our eyes are healthy.
(All taken from page 254 of Dr. Warren’s book)
I’d like to highly recommend you read his book. I am now reading his previous book, No Place to Hide which covers his time in Iraq as a medical surgeon in Balad. It is gut-wrenching so far. More praise to our armed forces!!
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