Sunday, May 21, 2000
Sunday, May 21, 2000
For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched
out, and who will turn it back?
It makes a tremendous difference what sort of God we believe in. In these days when religious
fanatics threaten the world, we have come to realize, if we didn't know it before, that belief in
God is not enough. The question is: what sort of God do we believe in?
Once again we are reminded that our beginning place is at the feet of Jesus.
(Isaiah 14:27
NRSV)
Ninety-eight per cent of the American people, according to most polls, say that they believe in
God. That can mean everything or that can mean nothing. For many people, that belief is a vague
notion about "Someone in the great Somewhere" (to quote a popular religious song of some years
ago). For a lot of people God is nothing more than a vast oblong blur. C.S. Lewis once wrote of
a girl he knew who said that the word, God, reminded her of a "vast tapioca pudding." The only
problem was that she hated tapioca pudding!
Loving God, Yes, I believe in you and in your power to make me a great servant to your holy
plan. Amen.
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