Lord, Teach Me Your Ways

In times of confusion and total perplexion we open ourselves to be instructed; we're more likely to listen during these times. Perhaps it's the inability to reach someone, perhaps one of our friends or work colleagues, or even one of our children, and we just want knowledge in how to actually reach that person.

We'd commence with a request to know more about the ways of life, and most specifically the answers to the particular situation. This might lead us to wonder for a moment about the character of God; his nature and his deeds of past.

Conjuring images of God is likely to bring us to a position of subjection--of being reminded of our frailties and disobedience, though God's not laying on the guilt-trip, we are!

The moment we acknowledge the real truth of God--his all-sufficient grace, no less--we're free again, free to bask in his goodness. It's in imagining and re-imagining God that we find he's utterly incomprehensible; this brings us paradoxically both dis-ease and comfort.