Grace to you and
peace fro God our Father
and the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God
and Father of mercies
and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all
our tribulation,
that we may be able to comfort
those who are in truouble,
with the comfort
with which we ourselves
are comforted
by God.
2 Corinthians 1:2-4
In times of tragedy some will lose their belief in a Sovereign God. A traumatic experience erodes their faith and leaves them without God. The question: "why did this happen, or why did God allow this to happen" enters into the equation and often leads a person into Deism. Yes, they may believe there is a God but God is far off and is disinterested in the day to day affairs of man. Others will take the dark road that leads them to a belief that a God does not exist, especially the God of the Bible who is declared to be loving and kind. These questions are understandable and enter the minds of those who have not allowed God to be Sovereign. As was written about in earlier blogs on faith, a situation as allowed their faith has become weaken by these events, their trust has flown into the ether by winds of distrust and disbelief. In the dark times of life is when we make a serious decision, to either run to God or run away from God. Paul wrote this for all who read his letter: Therefore I urge you to reaffirm your love to him" (2 Corinthians 2:8).
God is Sovereign and present in our lives, for He has not made us, constituted us in such a way as to know Him, then to leave is to our desperate lives, a life of despair, a life without God's intervention. It is in times of trouble that we can grow in the knowledge of God, allowing that innateness of our constitution to mature. This can become real in our lives if we have an eternal view, not just this temporal view of life. It we allow God to be Sovereign in our lives trusting that He as a Good God does nothing that is not within His purpose. It was God the Father who allowed Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God to suffer, be humiliated, and die a horrible death by being nailed to a cross, having a spear driven into His side. As unthinkable as that may be, God allowed such to happen in order to save His children, all that He has and will enable and be drawn to Him. God knows what is to happen and what may seem to be inhumane is in order to accomplish His purpose and that purpose is everlasting life for those who are His and everlasting death to all who are not His. You may cavil at such thinking, but you are not God: The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do as the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29).
Our institutional perception is capable of growing, that is our perception that God exists and is our loving Father and who is present in our lives every moment. Yes it is is true that in one man to another, that person might have far more acuteness but as with the blind who has an acute sense of feeling and touch, is also true of our intellect, it may grow in acuteness. Our intellect can mature. It is this, that in our moral and and religious nature, when we purify and exalt that nature the more clear the vision and the more our intuitions are capable to mature our faith in God. This allows us to rely on Him during times of distress and trauma. We may not have full understanding yet when we see that something is true without intervention of proof, we know that it is true, we see it intuitively.
We must not allow the feelings of another person to override our feelings and knowledge for a truth may be self-evident to one mind, it does not follow that it must be true in all minds. Remember this that there is a class of truths that are so plain and clear that they never fail to reveal themselves to the human mind, therefore the mind cannot refuse to assent to those truths. These axioms are to be accepted as truths and are to be assumed in all reasoning. This being true then to deny them is to render all faith and all knowledge to be impossible, that is to deny the universality and knowledge to be impossible. It is what we believe, and what all men must believe, is to be assumed as undeniable true. If a truth is to be believed then is must not, nor can it be by any man called into question. If it be a matter of necessity, a necessary belief, it must be accepted by all who possess the nature out of the constitution of which the necessity arises.
The next blogs then will give us the proof that the knowledge of God is innate and that the existence of God is an intuitive truth.
God is wise in heart and might in strength.
Richard L. Crumb
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