Certainty and a House of Cards

When we aim at certainty when it comes to our Christian beliefs, it sets us up for failure.

…Imagine someone with a lot of time on their hands who painstakingly constructs a five-foot-high house of cards. A house of cards is a structure of playing cards that are carefully leaned against and stacked on top of each other. That makes an impressive five feet of stacked cards. 

Here’s the thing about a house of cards: it’s necessarily precarious. Playing cards were never intended to be…