The Franciscan Richard Rohr has defined faith as “the security to be insecure”.
Insecure in not knowing how things are going to turn out.
Insecure at times in situations beyond my abilities.
Insecure in my experience of my own sinfulness and weakness.
Yet, in all this, secure in God’s everlasting faithfulness.
Secure in trust in God’s providence,
God’s provision,
God’s protection for his unique child,
knowing in faith that all that we see is not all that there is!
Surrender to Christ does not weaken me, it strengthens me.
The news of the Gospel is good, wonderfully good, good beyond all our hoping.
This same Gospel encourages me: never give up, never despair of God’s grace, never stop trusting and praying and placing all in his safe hands.
