Wrestling with God | Ep 84

How do we find rest when following Jesus creates real tension?In this episode, Brian Fisher resumes the Kingdom Dwellers mini-series by exploring another hidden quality of deep discipleship: becoming restful in the tension. Many Christians hold sincere beliefs about God’s goodness, faithfulness, and trustworthiness, yet our deeper ideas and desires do not always align with those beliefs. When suffering, unanswered prayer, difficult Bible passages, disappointment, or the problem of evil enter the story, that disconnection creates tension.Drawing from Heartview, Paul’s thorn in the flesh, Job, Jacob, C.S. Lewis, and Albert Haase, Brian considers three common responses to spiritual tension: saying “It’s all good,” saying “It’s like Job,” or taking the harder path of wrestling with God.Ultimately, this episode suggests that deep rest is not found by avoiding tension or rushing to easy answers. It often comes through honest wrestling, lament, questioning, and surrender—until we discover that the wrestling itself may have been part of the formation.Join us online! Web: ⁠⁠soilandroots.org⁠⁠ Substack: ⁠ https://soilandroots.substack.com/