“Where is your faith?” is an online meditation episode by Tim Keller. We have seen some of his episodes before, and even though this one sounds like a simple topic, it is not. As we get older (and, hopefully, wiser) we can be faced with a barrage of difficult circumstances in our lives that sometimes tests our faith in God.
But, we get so busy with the details of the day, that we often don’t think about the spiritual qualities that we need to develop to cope with these tests. Meditation/Devotions in the morning, walk out the door, and kaboom! We get blasted with something that takes our mind and our attention away, pointing it to ourselves. “How can I make sense of this?” “How can I solve this?” We forget about continuing our meditations/devotions and asking God, “How can I trust YOU to make sense of this?” “What are YOU going to do about this?”
Developing faith/trust in God, Who knows all things, during the smaller trials in our lives is good practice for when we need to draw on our faith/trust when the bigger storms come.
Here is the video we watched today by Tim Keller.
Another topic that we discussed was an extension of today’s sermon regarding humility. Sometimes the good things that we, and others, accomplish during our lives isn’t known until it is told by someone else. For example, we know that Oscar Schindler accomplished what he did during World War 2 in humility. There was a whole movie made about that. But what do we know about the story of Nicholas Winton? We know that he was born in 1908, was a British stockbroker, and died in 2015 at age 106.
But, his story wasn’t “discovered” until in 1988 when the BBC researched and told it. In this short video Sir Nicholas Winton was invited to an event, but he wasn’t told what it was about. It was here, and at age 80, he discovered to his own surprise how much of an active participant he was in his own story.
Here is the video we watched today about Sir Nicholas Winton.
And, here is a link to a more detailed article about his accomplishments.
I believe that there are a lot of Sir Nicholas Wintons in the world who may not quite understand the magnitude of their own accomplishments, and who don’t tell their own story as a monument to themselves even if they do. Someone else does the revealing.
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