Dissappointment with God

When yearning for a miraculous resolution to a problem, do we make out loyalty to God contingent on whether he reveals himself yet again in the unseen world? (" Lord .. if only you get me out of here... foxhole conversations... But that is for him to decide not us.)

if we insist on visible proof from God, we may well prepare the way for a permanent state of disappoinment. 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 thru 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 God's hiddedenness not by demanding that he show himself ,but by goin ahead and believing him though he stayed hidden. Hebrews11 pointedly notes that the giants of faith did not recieve the things promised, they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance.... we human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the real world and the unseen world as the unreal world bu the bible calls the almost the opposite. THru faith, the unseen world increasingly takes shape as the real world and sets the course for how we live in the seen world. Live for God, who is invisible, and not for other people, said Jesus in his words about the unseen world or the kingdom of heaven.

i can choose to have dissappointment with God or dissappointment WITHOUT God... the choice is mine... i can choose to do the right thing or to walk this journey alone... God.. help me to have child-like faith , instead of childish faith....

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self [3] is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

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