certainty

Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised

Scott McKnight includes an interesting quote from Flannery O’Conner in a post today:

Don’t expect faith to clear things up for you. It is trust, not certainty.

This reminds me of something similar that Walter Brueggermann said, ‘What we want is certainty, what we get is fidelity’ (not a direct quote). This has been haunting me for a while…

I guess it can be pushed into many particulars: What I want is God to give me a 5-year plan, what I get is day-to-day relationship. What I want is God to pay off my mortgage, what I get is daily bread.

With certainty, the temptation is to go off and live on our own based on that, but the point, in the end, is relationship.

Permalink | May 25th, 2007

One Response to “certainty”

  1. jonnyjpg Says:
    jonnyjpg May 29th, 2007 at 7:45 pm

    “I guess it can be pushed into many particulars: What I want is God to give me a 5-year plan, what I get is day-to-day relationship. What I want is God to pay off my mortgage, what I get is daily bread.”
    - brilliant. thank you for that.

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