My heart aches at the idea that it is within God’s loving and righteous character to strike those whom he loves in ways that cause deep and lasting pain, even if it is for glorifying and lifesaving purposes. But I believe this seeming dichotomy can be reconciled...

If we are the hands, feet, and voice of Jesus in the world, we are also the hands, feet, and voice of Joseph to the Jews.

...the journey through the cave had nothing to do with changing the shape of the cave... It was about learning to work with what had been formed; taking on one challenge after another... allowing the environment, the guide, and the obstacles to develop something in me...

The issue of Jerusalem, Israel, and the Jews is even now landing like a heavy stone on the peoples of the earth, and not in a way that we in the periphery may avoid. All of us are going to be, and are now being, tested on the matter of which side of the “heavy stone,”—Jesus’ rightful occupation of the throne in Jerusalem—we will come down on.