It's hard to be led. Don't you get anxious if you don't know where you're going? When I'm sitting on a plane, the pilot usually comes on after they've shut the door and says they're excited to be flying us to Reno, and there's a moment where I wonder what I would do if they said a different city than the one listed on my ticket. The door's shut and you're on the plane until they open it, but it'd be a weird few hours, thinking you were heading somewhere very different than you actually were. We don't like giving up control, and to do so without knowledge... that's a hard step for us.
When it comes to faith, we can easily acknowledge with our words that we trust God and will follow wherever God leads.
But to actually lean into that, to do that with our hearts and minds, giving up control and accepting that we don't know where the path leads... Not an easy step to take with our lives.
But if God is the God of our salvation, then is there another option that leads to true life? Any other path is simply fooling ourselves that we can save ourselves (which we often try and do). Only God can save us. Only God can deliver us.
So will you truly trust God and lean into the divine mystery?
Or hold onto the reins yourself, even though you know that you cannot get where you most need to be without the love and grace of God?
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