The Rev. Annemarie Delgado, WIN Executive Director, shared the following thoughts from a Christian perspective:

 

From a sermon based on Luke 12:49-56 by the Rev. Chuck Alley, “The Great Divide” as presented online in The Living Church, August 11, 2025.

 

"If we believe Jesus is our Lord and God, then we follow him. Our Yes is our life of obedience and dependence on Jesus. We follow him, and when we follow him, we are on the path to a reconciled relationship with God and eternal life."

 

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From an article by Dr. Kenneth Boa, PhD in Theology, "Dependence on God" as presented on Bible.org, October 21, 2005.

 

"In C.S. Lewis' Prince Caspian, a child named Lucy encounters Aslan, the Christ-figure of the Narnia stories, after not seeing him for a long while. "Aslan, you're bigger, " she says.

"That is because you're older, little one," answered he.

"Not because you are?"

"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."

 

The more mature in the faith we are, the bigger God will be for us. As our vision of God becomes clearer and we understand his enormity, we learn to rest in him. We grow in our ability to depend completely on him and know that with a God as competent as the God we find in the pages of Scripture, the universe in which we find ourselves is truly a safe place for us."