knowing

The Christian has a great advantage over other men not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world - Clives Staples Lewis

Both these things lead us to the feet of God. Who else can we turn to? Either there is a God, and we have a faint and flickering hope, which can sometimes be seen, and sometimes not. Or else there is no God, and all we do here on this earth is meaningless, and without a final purpose.

One issue which I have with Christianity nowadays, a trait which seems to me to be thankfully in remission, is the reliance upon cliched answers to vexing questions. I am surely guilty of it often enough, which is why i try as far as possible to relate my own personal experiences rather than just biblical teachings.

The Bible does show a number of persons who persist in offering cliched, Scripturally accurate answers across 37 chapters, and they are roundly rebuked as having "not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." Job is said here to have spoken rightly of God, but what did Job say?

Reading: Reaching for the Invisible God, by Philip Yancey.

Someone likened God and his creation to be like an author with his novel - ever-present and invisible, working all the threads together towards its intended end. Never appearing in person, but manifesting his will through circumstances and the decisions of the characters.