Recently, we hosted two women from Germany while they attended a conference and received training. Both are pastors’ wives.
Near the end of their stay, they were commenting on how hard it was to get people saved because of a stronghold of intellectualism that affects Germany and most of Europe for that matter.
The people they dealt with had answers for everything, rational explanations, for acts of God—like present-day miracles, supernatural healing, and the like.
I couldn’t help remembering that I also suffered from that malady until God got my attention.
I wanted to understand God, feeling that if couldn’t understand God I was vulnerable somehow. Perhaps, God is mad at me I thought.
Maybe, God is like some TV evangelists I didn’t like or certain Christians I had met that left me feeling guilty and not up to their “standards.”
If God exists, then I am at His mercy!
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