Neuhaus writes about our restlessness and dissatisfaction with life:
"Now we need faith, for the truth is not transparent; now we need hope, for we know we are not what we were meant to be."
Then he writes, continuing with the theme I wrote about yesterday:
We are His friends, not because we have befriended Him, but because He has befriended us. [. . .] Look at Him who is ever looking at you. With whatever faith you have, however feeble and flickering and mixed with doubt, look at Him. Look at Him with whatever faith you have and know that your worry about your lack of faith is itself a sign of faith. Do not look at your faith. Look at Him. Keep looking, and faith will take care of itself.
When I look at Him, I have no time left to look at myself and my pathetic worries and failures. When I look at Him, He can make me what He created me to be. Lord, help me look at You and leave off the maunderings of my foolish self-centeredness.
2 comments:
What an excellent quote about faith, which can be faith even when mixed with doubts about it, etc. I'm trying to explain this to my son who's worried much about his. I'll share this with him.
Thanks! Hope all is well!
Teri
I hope this is help to you dear boy. The one I posted today might be good, too. All of Chapter 4 of the book might be really helpful, in fact, in the understanding of what it means to have faith, to be in Him and not have to be worried and bothered over it.
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