2. God arranges the circumstances and chooses the tools that lead to our being broken. Why did Jesus walk on water to His disciples? In part, He was setting up the situation in which He could teach Peter and the other disciples. God always brings about the circumstances of our breaking in two ways. At times, He engineers the situation that will cause us to confront what He desires to change in us. At other times, God will simply allow us to follow the path of sin and error that we have chosen. He
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