Johannesburg, South Africa
Eight times this year I have boarded a plane, buckled my seat belt, watched the safety demo, and drifted 30,000 feet in the air. In a matter of hours and thousands of miles, the plane would decsend and roll to a stop back onto earth. If I tried to explain to you the physics of this phenomenon, I would fail miserably. If I wanted to, I could go to the library and check out a book or log onto the internet and google the explanation of how airplanes work, but instead I just trust and believe that the pilot knows what he is doing and every time, I’ve miraculously landed thousands of miles from where we took off though I couldn’t even begin to attempt to explain how that happens.
I think that’s how God sometimes wants us to live by our faith. I don’t think we are supposed to understand every facet of God. In fact, just like you can choose to go find a book that explains the history of and physics of flight and trust that the author knows what he is talking about, you can also choose to read the Bible, God’s explanation of Him, and trust that He knows what He is talking about and has inspired every scripture…even He tells you in Ecclesiastes 11:5, “As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.” Sometimes I let my intellect get the best of me when it comes to thinking about God…then I remember that our finite minds are only capable of comprehending a small fraction of the truth about an infinite God and a timeless eternity.
