Voskamp VIII: What We Can Rely On

In writing about her little boy’s hand being severed (almost), she returns to what we all  can rely on, the Word (as distinct from her thanking journal about soap suds and bubbles) and the Cross and the Person.  The Word makes clear, the Person shows us, the Cross proves it.  The Person cups our face in his hands and tells us, shows he, he understands the perspectives of humans, pain, loss, torture, rejection.  As Piper writes, he was tempted in all points as we were, and his temptation is not less because he could not sin, it is more—Satan would have thrown everything at him.  We give in so quickly to temptation.