9 Quotes by Kasey Van Norman

The more time that passes without an answer and the longer we wander through the wilderness of silence and shadow, the more fearful we become that maybe God isn't all we have believed him to be. It's in those moments that Satan plants in us the temptation to 'throw away this confident trust in the Lord.' The enemy wants us to forget 'the great reward it brings you' (Hebrews 10:35).

Healthy doubt encourages us to bring our questions to God; toxic doubt drives us away from him. And healthy doubt makes an appearance for the short term, ultimately bringing us to a deeper place with God, while toxic doubt consumes us and lingers on, dragging us down day after day, year after year.

When we foolishly believe that our ways, our opinions, our plans somehow have jurisdiction over the sovereign will of the Creator of the universe, we will always end up in one place: the pigpen.

God can’t be squashed into any formula or confined to a narrow explanation, and he doesn’t want our dreams to be small and manageable either. He is a God who blasts through all human boundaries.

Drifting away from faith tends to start with the small things, the unintentional things, the seemingly insignificant moments of discontentment.

God has a calling for us to embrace right now, today.

So I’m learning this is not about me but about what he wants me to be. Who do you want me to be, Lord? Help me not to be afraid.

I do not need the Lord to heal me. What I need is the faith to trust him no matter what happens. In this, I have begun to realize that great faith is borne in the great unknowns of life.

Despite this bad day, my Jesus is not at all surprised by my self-pitying rant. He isn’t disgusted by my inability to form complete prayer sentences. I don’t think he’s even disappointed that I didn’t open my Bible today, for to be disappointed means you must first have expectations, and my Jesus has no expectations of me. Standards – yes. Expectations – no.