Challenge, disturbance, and problems; three things we don't want. Therefore we guide our children to safer ground. (Could this be a fundamental reason the bulk of our children leave the church by age 20?) We fundamentally don't do trouble. It may and does hit us. So we hunt for the fastest exit.
Yet crisis is basic training for the believer. We must have it. The cross is neither gimmick nor decor. It is a roadway to experience the Eternal Life of God.
Oswald Chambers wrote, The disciples approached Jesus by the way of sincerity, and he put them through crises until they discovered that they could never be disciples in that way; what they needed was to have the disposition of Jesus given them.
So fascinated with Jesus, the disciples left all to follow him. Three years later it is recorded that they all fled to that which they had left. Why?
Discipleship isn't about assumed victory and it is not about convenience. It is about life in the center of crisis.
Even when we are having a bad day we are having a good day as faithful followers of this one who defeated even death.
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