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Jesus was rejected.

Jesus was betrayed.

Jesus was misunderstood.

Jesus was happy.

Jesus was sad.

Jesus was human.

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“For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.”

Ephesians 2:10 🫶🏾🙏🏾

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In light of that, I agree with you; taking a course of action based on what you know of God's character and trusting him to show up seems, to me, to be a clearer expression of your trust. This is not to say we never wait, but I think God makes clear when we ought to wait. Abraham and Sarah, as past replies have mentioned, should have waited; but they were waiting on a specific promise, and their action was an effort to limit the ways God could show up, because they thought some of them were impossible. In fact, if we realize that conceiving a child as God had promised them would take their involvement, they actively gave up on taking faithful initiative (or at the very least used Hagar as a backup plan) when there was still time for God to fulfill his promise that Sarah would have a son in the most natural meaning of that phrase. Theirs is an action of fear.

When Nehemiah, on the other hand, takes his life in his hands to ask the king to rebuild the wall, he is acting in faith; God has shown him a situation that requires action, and Nehemiah, left to his own discretion, does what in his judgment will best glorify God. He does not know the outcome; he could well have been killed for making his request, and that would have glorified God, too. What matters is that his basis for his actions is God's kingdom. God is not opposed to initiative; he is opposed to distrust.

The parable of the talents shows this; the servant who hid the talent to be sure that he wasn't going to be rebuked is, in fact, rebuked, because his faulty understanding of the Master is that the Master is obsessed with productivity and success, not faithfulness. (Whereas, even if the Master really were "a hard man, taking out what [he] did not put in and reaping what [he] did not sow," doing nothing would be the worst possible response.)

Two neurons sensing each other and trying to connect

Esther 4:14

Romans 5:3-5