He comes in and sits down across the desk from me and he
says, hey, I have got this great plan for your life. I know exactly what you
should be doing from now on. I've got it all worked out. And guess what? You
don't have to worry about the direction of your life anymore. So come on, let's
go. So of course, I get up and I grab my coat and off we go.
It, it's a great, it's a great mental picture and something
we would all want to have happen, to have Jesus actually show up and clearly
tell us what we should be doing, what our purpose in calling is, right? It's
what we would want, right? Isn't it?
Is it though? Because of course, when I really stop to think
about it, maybe it's not what I want. I suspect we all want some level of
plausible deniability in our relationship with Jesus. If we can claim that we
can't really know what Jesus personally wants from us, then it is left up to us
to determine all of that. That feels safer somehow.
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