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“The irony about a ridiculous command from God is that it will usually seem like the exact opposite of what we “should” do. When we’ve been wronged, our natural response is to retaliate, but God’s ridiculous command is to forgive entirely. When we’ve lost deeply, it makes sense that we’d pull back for fear of enduring loss again, but God’s ridiculous command is to push forward. When we’ve gained something, our initial response is to hold on tight to preserve it, but God’s ridiculous command is to give it away. These commands give us a revelation that God’s methods are often radically different from ours. It’s not going to make sense to us because we don’t see the way our story ends. All we see is an ask of faith from God that puts us at a crossroads between what is logical and illogical. Yet however ridiculous it seems, we must obey.”
― Paradox: The God Who Breaks the Rules
― Paradox: The God Who Breaks the Rules
“when you push beyond your boundaries and align your steps with the heart of God, He will break the rules to accelerate blessings in your life. During challenging seasons that test us spiritually, emotionally, and relationally, it’s easy to want to step back instead stepping forward. We all want to know what’s next, but if we know every step that comes next, we will live from a limited dream and limited faith. It’s not in the known that we discover God’s plan of paradox; it’s in the unknown. And it’s only when we push the boundaries of faith and logic that we begin to step into the unknown.”
― Paradox: The God Who Breaks the Rules
― Paradox: The God Who Breaks the Rules
“If we were to take a blank piece of paper and draw a dot representing where we are and another dot representing where God is leading you, the empty space between those two dots would be the unknown. In that empty space, God begins to write things into your future that are beyond your reach if you stay planted at your dot. It’s in the empty space in our life that God talks to us in ways that we’ve never heard before. When the money’s in the bank, we don’t need God to talk to us. When our marriage and kids are on the right track, we don’t need God to talk to us. When everything makes sense, we don’t need God to talk. But in the empty spaces where there is nothing known or seen between our dot and God’s dot, we desperately need God to speak. Life’s most painful circumstances form deep-seated beliefs that need a bigger God to dispel them.”
― Paradox: The God Who Breaks the Rules
― Paradox: The God Who Breaks the Rules
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