The Certainty of God

The reason we can be totally honest with God is because He doesn't change. He always loves and welcomes us. The big problem isn’t His uncertainty. It’s our mistaken belief that He isn't certain or that we can't depend on Him. There is something that feels like a paradox here. The best way to begin learning about His certainty is to admit to Him that we don't feel He is certain, safe, or maybe even good! The recovering alcoholics got it right when they proposed to other alcoholics that they turn their will and their lives over the care of God as they understood Him. It isn't that God is relative or uncertain--the problem is that our view of Him is relative or uncertain.

God’s so loving, so caring, so certain, and so safe, that we can go to Him and start off by telling Him we don't believe any of it in the first place. In fact, it may be that He wants you to confront Him - that He wants your anger at His apparent lack of deliverance. This might be the sort of passionate prayer He so longs for. Your prayers of anger may be the ones of deepest faith and trust you've ever embarked upon. He can then take that anger and turn you into something quite amazing.

The certainty of God is that He’ll start with you, wherever you’re starting at. You don't have to get rid of your anger or sadness or depression first. That's probably where He wants to start.