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A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

Philip Yancey
Faith, Pain, Believe
Philip Yancey (2009). “Reaching for the Invisible God Study Guide”, p.28, Zondervan

The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always feel. Our disappointment is itself a sign, and aching, a hunger for something better. And faith is, in the end, a kind of homesickness - for a home we have never visited but have never once stopped longing for.

Philip Yancey
Faith, Religious, Disappointment
Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.202, Harper Collins

God reproduces and lives out His image in millions of ordinary people like us. It is a supreme mystery. We are called to bear that image as a Body because any one of us taken individually would present an incomplete image, one partly false and always distorted, like a single glass chip hacked from a mirror. But collectively, in all our diversity, we can come together as a community of believers to restore the image of God in the world.

Philip Yancey
Faith, Christian, Taken
FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Feb 19, 2013

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Philip Yancey
Faith, Religious, Hurt

If we insist on visible proofs from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappointment. True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. As I searched through the Bible for models of great faith, I was struck by how few saints experienced anything like Job's dramatic encounter with God. The rest responded to the hiddenness not by demanding that he show himself, but by going ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden.

Philip Yancey
Faith, Religious, Jobs
Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

As I look around on Sunday morning at the people populating the pews, I see the risk that God has assumed. For whatever reason, God now reveals himself in the world not through a pillar of smoke and fire, not even through the physical body of his Son in Galilee, but through the mongrel collection that comprises my local church and every other such gathering in God’s name. (p. 68, Church: Why Bother?)

Philip Yancey
Faith, Morning, Sunday
FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jan 18, 2016

I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing - sometimes betrays a lack of faith rather than an abundance of it. When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make our loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the seen world?

Philip Yancey
Faith, Loyalty, Religious
Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

Philip Yancey
Faith, Religious, Real
Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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