Have you ever wondered if you had been zapped by some atomic ray that made your car invisible? I just had one of those evenings. Three times on the way home cars pulled right out in front of me forcing me to come to a full stop lest I strike them in the driver’s door.
While I really don’t believe my car was invisible I do realize there are all kinds of things around us that we cannot see or hear or smell. My dog hears and smells things I cannot hear and smell. There are light waves above and below what I can detect. We do not have to stretch our imaginations beyond intellectual reason to read and believe Bible stories that talk about angels. People who think the only things that exist are tangible haven’t considered radio, television, Internet and radar waves that literally fill our environment. Recently while taking a nap my cell phone rang. What I noted was it was in my pocket between me and the couch. The fact that my body was smothering it didn’t seem to matter.
Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Here’s where it can get a bit tricky. This verse is not carte blanche for us to believe all manner of crazy stuff. Just because we can imagine something doesn’t mean it is so. Real faith requires real intellect and real intellect requires some manner of evidence. As Jesus said to Nicodemus, the invisible wind blows and we can see the leaves move. The world contains much that we cannot see and God requires that we use the brains He gave us.
Written by Roger Bothwell on April 8, 2011
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