I thought I would make this review into a couple posts instead of one long one - shorter bits to take in. Hopefully, then my readers will stay with me on this subject!
One of the truths that Hope discovers is that "what we need the most we resist the most" p. 25. Wow, isn't that the truth. Many of us realize we need God but don't we also resist God, resist His help, resist His ways! We want to do things our way and then wonder why things don't work out. We want our prayers answered in our timing, the way we demand. We often don't ask God what He wants, what direction should we take?
Yet, God is amazingly patient. He gently guides us along and patiently waits for us to stop resisting. Sometimes though when we resist too much or too strongly, He has to more forcefully correct us. Those times can be painful but it is also in those times we can grow the most. It is when we can see God's hand in our lives, guiding us, leading us, protecting us, caring and loving us. For he has promised that He will never leave us or forsake us.
What we need the most we resist the most - don't you just see that fully in the world today. It is evident to me, looking at today's culture how much God is needed and how much God is being resisted. God is no longer welcome in our schools, in our government, in our public buildings, etc. We are resisting Him, pushing Him away. And the further we push Him away, the more our culture deteriorates. And the more our culture deteriorates the more we really need Him.
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