April 13, 2026

Today the church is wrestling with what it actually means to trust God when life doesn't cooperate. First Things ran a piece about a faithful theologian whose career quietly collapsed — not because of sin or failure, but because that's how it went. The question isn't abstract: where is God in disappointment that doesn't resolve? Relevant Magazine profiles Levi Lusko asking something similar from the pastoral side — what happens when the man with answers loses his. And Christianity Today goes deep on infertility, specifically the moment when medical options multiply and faith gets harder to locate, not easier. Three very different situations. The same pressure underneath all of them: God is not moving on your timeline, and you have to decide what to do with that.

Ligonier offers the classical answer — divine immutability. God doesn't change, so anchor there. Clean theology. But the First Things piece and the CT piece are both asking whether that anchor holds emotionally, not just doctrinally, when the waiting is years long and the silence is real. Mere Orthodoxy takes a sharper angle: mindfulness won't fix your anxiety because it points you inward, and the problem is that inward is exactly where the fear lives. The Giver has to be the destination, not the breathing exercise. That question of where to actually look — not just theoretically but in the body, in the waiting room, in the failed career — is what pulls all of this together. Earlier this week we were watching a similar tension between desire and hope play out. Today it's trust and time.