Tuesday, April 18, 2000
Tuesday, April 18, 2000
They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and
those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."
If God's aim is to produce mature spirits fit to spend eternity in God's presence, it makes sense
that God would not reveal Himself in God's fulness to us. Such certainty would keep us
perpetually immature. If a child knows that his father will always be there to solve every problem,
to resolve every crisis, to comfort every sorrow, the child will never develop self-reliance. Our
insecurity may be essential to spiritual growth.
(John 14:21
NRSV)
We can sympathize with British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell who was once
asked what he would say if after death he found himself confronted by God. Russell replied, "I
shall say to Him, 'Why did you make the evidence of your existence so insufficient?'" There is a
part of us that says with Thomas, "Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my
finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe." We all long for
certainty. But that is one gift that God has not granted us.
God of peace, I know my world is not secure, but in you I will grow in your strength. Amen.
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