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    The document tells a story about a student who was struggling with doubts about their faith due to a Bible difficulty they had been thinking about. Their professor wisely told them not to try and hold up God (the rock), but rather to let God hold them up. It goes on to say that relationships, especially with God, should contribute to life, not drain it. When faced with challenges, the author sometimes relies on giving God the benefit of the doubt, but other times they need to cry out to God for help when the challenge is too great. They describe sitting on the stairs overwhelmed with pain, fear and inability to pray, but relying on Jesus' presence to give them breath and hold them together through suffering. The

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    The document tells a story about a student who was struggling with doubts about their faith due to a Bible difficulty they had been thinking about. Their professor wisely told them not to try and hold up God (the rock), but rather to let God hold them up. It goes on to say that relationships, especially with God, should contribute to life, not drain it. When faced with challenges, the author sometimes relies on giving God the benefit of the doubt, but other times they need to cry out to God for help when the challenge is too great. They describe sitting on the stairs overwhelmed with pain, fear and inability to pray, but relying on Jesus' presence to give them breath and hold them together through suffering. The

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    Holding Up The Rock

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    HERACLITO
    The document tells a story about a student who was struggling with doubts about their faith due to a Bible difficulty they had been thinking about. Their professor wisely told them not to try and hold up God (the rock), but rather to let God hold them up. It goes on to say that relationships, especially with God, should contribute to life, not drain it. When faced with challenges, the author sometimes relies on giving God the benefit of the doubt, but other times they need to cry out to God for help when the challenge is too great. They describe sitting on the stairs overwhelmed with pain, fear and inability to pray, but relying on Jesus' presence to give them breath and hold them together through suffering. The

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    Holding up the Rock...

    I wrote somewhere else on the Tank this: "A wise old Bible teacher once told a story of a bright, young student who was worried about losing his faith over some Bible difficulty he had been agonizing over for some time. The professor kindly admonished the student with a simple "Son, why are YOU trying to hold the ROCK up, instead of letting the ROCK hold YOU up?!" There is a powerful reality hiding in this simple story and it is this: any relationship (with God especially) worth having is one that contributes to life, not drains it off (remember Jesus; "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath"?)... When I am challenged by some atrocity in my experience, sometimes it is easy to see my way through it. Often this involves giving God "the benefit of the doubt" (see below). But sometimes the challenge is so difficult that there is no way to calm myself down (smile)...I have to run to the Lord and cry for help. There have been a couple of experiences in my life this past year (2000) in which the crushing weight of some event or crisis seemed beyond endurance, and when the challenge was beyond my ability to 'focus my faith' or 'gird up my loins' or 'grit my teeth in stubborn trust', I instead went and sat down on a stair step in my apartment and told Jesus I needed Him to just sit by me there...I would sit on the stairs, trembling in pain and fear, overwhelmed to the point of not even being able to pray or think...only weeping and sobbing and groaning there, counting on Jesus' presence-sitting on the steps with me-to give me my next breath. And He always was there, holding me up, guiding my tears, holding up my heart through it all, and washing my soul with the beauty of His peace and comfort when it was time to stand up and move forward again. I didn't try to hold the Rock up, but relied totally on the Rock to hold me up (and hold me together, too---obviously). And the same applies to challenges of doubt, of difficult decisions, of moral uncertainty...we count on our Lord to be the ground of our faith, not our faith to the ground of our Lord.

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