Yes, it is natural to wonder: “Why should it be this way? Why is it so great to believe without seeing, to have faith in the absence of evidence that would inspire such trust?” As humans, we like to ensure that we are taking a reasonable and sensible course – that we are approaching life with a set of premises that can stand up to other people’s questioning and inquiry.
But when we stop and realize that the world often defies our attempts to control it, and to predict its manifestations to the finest degree, it becomes clear that Logic – at least the kind our human brains are capable of – can’t and won’t lead us into all truth about life.
Sure, reason is a gift that must guide us through many decisions and operations in the world – but who has encountered the fullness of beauty through this faculty alone?
GOD is beyond our smallness of ways. He thinks and moves and acts in ways that we can’t always perceive. This is why, when we’re confronted with a matter that defies our understanding, we must remember that there is more at play than what we can detect with our eyes or ears or minds.
Faith – the act of surrendering our belief to Someone much greater than we – enables us to enter a different realm, where the limitations of reason and predictability no longer confine us. It is important to know that we don’t know – and so, in a gesture of humility, turn our hearts to the One Who does. When we shift our focus from “This is how it must be” to “All is unfolding in a rhythm mostly unknown to me, but governed by Someone I love,” then we begin to understand more about life than we otherwise could.
I don’t know how to explain the thrust of my message, but, in general, I want you to see that when you open your heart in trust, you open the door to a new way of life, less confined by the limits of a strictly sensing and thinking mode of being.
