EXCHANGES are made all throughout
life, and this rule is no exception. Through courage the vulnerable journey
forward along the road to acceptance. Their faith sees them all the way there.
But vulnerability causes pain.
Exposing our truest selves requires spiritual surrender on par with the
ultimate trust — that is to trust God fully in a broken, scary world.
It can seem an impossible thing to
conjure in our minds let alone do.
It is easier to do when we
understand how it works.
The model above imagines, at the
bottom-left corner, that there is no sense of trust. We perhaps do not start
there, so we’re along that line until we reach the point of vulnerability. We
know we’re there when we know we’re trusting, and that trust costs us. It
requires of us, courage.
The wonderful thing regarding the
currency of courage, however, is the cost is gain. As we apply our courage, we’re
given increased and improved capacity to trust. Courage trusts.
Beyond the point of feeling safely
vulnerable (which can sound like a contradiction), less courage is required of
us, but more faith. Tenacity, perseverance and resilience become of more value,
at this point, than the pure courage of risk in anxious circumstances.
Again, the wonderful thing about
faith as a currency is the longer-term gains we receive for our sacrifice of the
familiar. Trust now takes the proportions of acceptance, which can seem like a
dizzy reality that simply doesn’t concern us. We accept the mystery, the
dichotomy, the enigma now ever before us without question. Indeed, we have
learned to let go, and to question again would be to backslide. Purity of
acceptance is to not linger over a single tempting thought.
Acceptance in the reality of life
is a Kingdom-of-God gift advanced to us for living faithfully.
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