Fearlessly Courageous
Desk of Dennis Piller
10 13 2025
Meet Me on the Corner of Dale Mabry and Easy Street
I sought and even fought for years to discover God in my world … on my terms.
What about you? Am I the only one here?
We want to know Him in disasters, tragedies, and sudden losses.
We pray, “God, meet me right here … on the corner of Dale Mabry and Easy Street.”
But have you ever noticed… we rarely seek Him in calm and peace?
When the bills are paid, the body is healthy, and the sky is blue — who needs God then?
Ok! Maybe for a few days of thanksgiving.
We often see God more through wrath and judgment than through peace and contentment.
Isn’t that true?
Common sense would tell us: if we’re truly looking for God,
we should go where He has revealed Himself before.
If the last time I saw him, he “lived at this address,” maybe I should drive by again.
But no … that’s not how we think.
What? Drive 45 mins to an hour to church? Talk to a pastor? Pick up my Bible? Come on, can’t I just push a button and get this over with?
We want a microwave God in a slow-cooker world. Am I the only one who thinks that sounds deplorable?
Where God Reveals Himself
So, where does God reveal Himself?
In the beauty of creation?
In the pages of Scripture?
In the quiet of our hearts?
Yes — but above all else, He has revealed Himself in one place, in one person, and in one act:
“For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:6 The clearest picture of God is not in our storm, but in His Son.
Not in our suffering, but in His suffering.
Not in our striving, but in His surrender.
I want you to step into the deeper waters of His leading. But that means we must read at a deeper level…We must feel at a much deeper level… We must feel a portion of the pain and agony that was His on Calvary. When did you last meditate on those hideous moments? I know it’s hard to focus on something so grotesque. But how else can you know the depth of His love for you, if you don’t have some idea of the suffering that He volunteered in to save you. Yes, you alone.
Finding God Where He Truly Is
We find God not so much in our own pain … though peace can come even there, but in the suffering of Jesus.
When we find Jesus in the midst of His suffering, we only begin to understand our own.
There, at the cross, God waited for us to come home and we weren’t even born yet. But He knew your name.
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for You are with me.”
— Psalm 23:4
It’s because of the Father’s deep love that He sent His Son —
to take on all our sins,
to suffer what we could not bear,
to restore what we had lost.
If we see Jesus through that lens… the lens of sacrificial love… then we begin to discover where God is.
And when we know that, we can endure anything.
Suffering. Loss. Confusion. Even death itself.
Because He promised:
“I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
— Hebrews 13:5
Faith and Hope: The Road to God’s Address
Before anything else, each and every Christian must have the insight of faith,
so the mind may know its direction in the day of trouble
and the heart may hope for better things.
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”
— Romans 10:17
Faith begins the journey.
Hope keeps us walking.
Love is the destination.
If we cultivate our faith … if we plow the ground with repentance and obedience… just as we develop any habit worth keeping —
God will nourish it with strength.
And soon, we realize He was never hiding.
We just needed to go where He said He’d be.
At the cross.
In His Word.
In the quiet whisper that says, “Be still, and know that I am God.”
— Psalm 46:10
So next time life leaves you searching for God on Easy Street and Dale Mabrey…
stop.
Look toward the cross.
That’s the address where God still lives.
And you’ll find He’s been waiting there all along for you to deposit all of your baggage.
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