“The Lord your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below.” (Joshua 2:11)
The Bible seems never to gloss over the failings of its characters, nor to explain them. It gives us the unadorned facts, and it leaves the rest to us. And I marvel still more that God so often takes the rather messy stuff of our lives and manages to bring good of it. This doesn’t excuse our messiness (read that ‘sin’), but it does remind us that God is not undone by our weakness, our stupidity, or our wickedness. Rather, God has a remarkable penchant for mixing grace with our basest ingredients until the will of heaven comes to pass.
-- J. Ellsworth Kalas in “Life from the Up Side: Seeing God at Work in the World”
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