Dissected

"..the biblical stories that cause the most cognitive dissonance to our logical minds often contain the greatest revelations. Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us - our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes. To often we approach stories like this one as if God is on trial, but it's not His character that is in question. It's our character that is on the stand...."

-Mark Batterson, All In: You Are One Decision Away From A Totally Different Life, page 41
(reference is to Genesis 22, Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac)

Rewrite!

Truth!

"Rather than trying to write God into our stories, we would be wiser to sit patiently with our Father and let him tell us his. We would surely find ourselves in his story and learn that we are not defined by our hurts or our sins, as we may have believed.  As he tells us his story, we must be willing to let go of the stories we've told to make sense of our lives. We must let his story rewrite ours and sweep us up into something much greater than ourselves."

 Mike Wilkerson, Redemption: Freed by Jesus from the Idols We Worship and the Wounds We Carry, page 27