Good Morning It's great to be back from Mexico although I will miss the weather.
Have you ever been around someone who talks so much about God that it makes things feel awkward?
"I felt God saying...", "God was telling me to...", "God is planning on doing...", and my
favorite; "I think God is telling you to..."
This got me thinking about how odd this seems in the ears of many modern people. I realized that there is no fundamental difference in the experiences of people, only the way in which they interpret things. It is a function of how one's world view orients information.
Information is all around us. It is accessed everywhere and in every person. You could say it's
omnipresent.
You see, the experience of the unbeliever or the sceptic is to simply evaluate information as helpful or not helpful to their life.
It is precisely the same for the believer. The only difference is believers accredit the source of information to God. They interpret things as personally relevant rather than random. That has a big impact on well-being.
Thus before anything can be
considered revelation, it is always first information.
So each of us is faced with a choice.
- Is information that we deem valuable to our life coming to us in a random way? Or
- Are we intensionally going after it knowing that it will benefit us?
The answer may be both, but if you had a bias
toward #2 then you are a person of faith. (Didn't see that coming did you?) Yes, it requires faith to realize we lack information and to seek it out. We are trusting some source (be it Google, experts, the bible or friends) to teach us what we don't know.
Now that you have this information, try going through your day of discovery and asking this question:
Is it possible that what I learn each day is coming from a benevolence
that knows me personally?
If you answer no: Then you have faith in randomness. If yes, then you have faith in God.
The byproduct of the former is self-dependence which can lead to pride, the latter is gratitude which can lead to humility.
