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Part 2: Trusting on Top of the Tight-Rope

This is a series of blogposts that reflect on some of the topics in the forthcoming book A Curious Faith: Love, Loss and Living. You can find Part 1 here.
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Early on in the year, I watched The Walk (2015), a movie that tells the story of a French, high-wire artist who had the courage to walk the immense void between the two towers of the World Trade Center in the mid-70's. The plot development amid the thematic ploy of motivation in the face of doubt and obstacles was top notch notwithstanding. My father once used the illustration of the high-wire artist to impress a lesson on trusting God - He said that many times we know that God is all-good and all-loving and that he will grant us victory in the tough seasons and experiences we go through, but trusting God is similar to climbing on the back of the tight-rope walker as he struts forward in order to accomplish his fete. 


I especially remember God's directing of me to head over to seminary to study theology and prepare for ministry, whatever that would be: You see, he hadn't given me all the details. I had majored in something totally different (at least, given popular sentiment), and this was certainly a crazy thing to do. And it was. Beautifully crazy.


Yet sometimes, God expects us to trust him in such crossroads because they are formative for our faith and for our future journey. What sometimes causes our hearts to wax cold is our limited view of time, our lack of strength and our lack of faith. Which is why, our trust should always be based upon God's faithfulness (2 Tim. 2:10-13). Our getting to the end of the tight-rope is not based on our skill, but on the proven record of the tight-rope walker. Depending on whether we eat lots of cheese or ugali or whether we are vegan, the scales can tip either side, literally . . . but nonetheless, a proven tight-rope walker is always sufficient for the task.


Of course, God's ways, wisdom and width of ability greatly surpass ours. He is able to carry us beyond any troubled waters; he is able to heal the sorest of wounds and he is able to vindicate the least of us. God is able to get us to the promised land, as he did the Israelites with a powerful and outstretched arm (Ps. 136:10-14). He is worthy of our trust, in the face of great odds. We can trust him on the tight-rope.


"Today we give thanks for God’s revelation of himself to us: God the Father, beyond all time and space who lovingly created the world, and who brings order to our chaos; God the Son, who shows us how to love and who gives his life that we may truly live; God the Holy Spirit, who sustains us and equips us to be faithful." (A Sermon on the Tight-Rope by David Battrick)

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