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Hi ~

Here’s something I’ve seen in the Christian world, especially the Reformed world, that has troubled me.

There is a tendency toward fatalism.

Fatalism is the belief that whatever is going to happen is going to happen and there’s nothing we can do to change it. It's common in the Muslim world.

With it comes a certain apathy, which can then become an appalling hard-heartedness.

I've seen it among Christians too.

“If it’s God’s will, it will happen.”

Or, “Since this happened, it must be God’s will.”

Or “We don’t know the ways of God.” With a shrug. Whatever.

You may have seen how disastrous this thinking can be among those who are called to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Maybe you've even come to a place where it felt like everything and everyone was against you—possibly even God.

And maybe you practiced courage anyway, to do the right thing.

If so, congratulations. You are one in a long, long line of courageous Jesus followers throughout history who have practiced courage against the status quo.

Against barriers and obstacles that they refused to allow to stop them from moving forward in doing what was right.

I wrote about many of them in my missionary book series, back before I started writing my Untwisting Scriptures series.

God never called us to fatalism. In fact, He has called us to the opposite.

He has called us to refuse to say, “This evil that’s being done must just be God’s will.”

To practice courage in His Name, instead of fatalism.

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When you write your book, you’ll encounter barriers too. But you can refuse to say, “Oh well, it must not be God’s will for me to write my book.”

You can ask the Lord, “Lord, how do you want me to get over or under or around this obstacle?”

You’ve already done courageous things with your life. You don’t want any remaining sense of fatalism to stop you from moving forward in all that God has called you to, in service for His Kingdom.

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With you for wanting to practice courage instead of fatalism,

Rebecca

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