Consistent Inconsistencies

“Strengthen yourselves so that you will live here on earth doing what God wants.”
I Peter 4:2

I suspect the most consistent thing about your life has to be inconsistency…

It’s this eerie inconsistency that keeps all of us, to one degree or another, living our lives at the edge of our chairs.

Yet, it was in this inconsistency that God has his finest hour. Never did the obscene come so close to the holy as it did on Calvary. Never did the good in the world so intertwine with the bad as it did on the cross…

God on a cross. Humanity at it’s worst. Divinity at it’s best…

God is not stumped by an evil world. He doesn’t gasp in amazement at the depth of our faith or the depth of our failures. He knows the condition of the world…and loves it just the same. For just when we find a place where God would never be (like on a cross), we look again and there he is, in the flesh.

1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume 2
Originally printed in No Wonder They Call Him the Savior

Mirrored:

I have always hold on to God’s promise that “all things will work together for the good of those who love God.” It is comforting to know that God is always working even in my mistakes, even in my failures. He works miracles that will cause us to glorify Him more. The key is that we must love Him.