Some of us say we believe in God because life could not have just happened. Could never believe that this dragon fly… let alone the challenges and quiet reflection of human existence… could have happened apart from a greater personality, thought, or love…even in boundless eons of time.
But thinking about the alternative—that God, in a tri-unity of persons, or in any form at all—would exist eternally… without beginning… feels at time like even more of a crazy-maker.
Doesn’t make sense. Makes me feel like my mind is going to blow up… lock up…or shut down like an overheated engine.
For those moments, I have, so far, only been able to find peace of mind either by not thinking about it… or by thinking about the one who said, “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God. Believe also in me.”
Actually, sometimes I’m more inclined to say, “Lord, the only way I can find peace of mind is to think, because I believe in you, I believe in God.”
Just as importantly, I rest in something else that I cannot explain… Jesus went on to say, “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him (John 14:7). To think that God, in his otherwise inexpressible nature, is just like Jesus… in heart, purpose, and love… has to be… if true… one of the most reassuring thoughts we could ever have.
For me, Jesus resonates with more credibility than anyone else I have ever known or heard about. Even though his mind goes places I can’t even begin to contemplate, I find peace today in the assurance that what drives me senseless… he knows about… infinitely better than I do… and can handle.
I could only wish the same peace of mind for others whose minds and hearts are ruined by the trauma of war, abuse, abandonment… or even just the awareness of personal guilt for terrible wrongs done.
Addiction to mind killing alcohol, street or prescription drugs, pornography, or any other kind of sexual adrenaline, food, sport, or religious fantasy is only a momentary fix… that only delays a more hellish unraveling…
Jesus alone, for so many reasons deserves to be trusted when he says, “Don’t let your hearts be troubled… Believe… in me…”
Irish, Oxford Scholar, and former atheist, CS Lewis, seems to me to make so much sense when he said in that well worn quote… “A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic – on the level with a man who says he is a poached egg – or he would be the devil of hell. You must take your choice. Either this was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us” (Mere Christianity).
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