Clamped in Logic

Logic.

It’s what we, as humans, seem forever fated to and bound by. If you take one thing and add one more thing, you get two things. It’s the simplest of logic, and very similar simplistic patterns and concepts bind our universe together.

But they should not bind our minds together.

In our universe, the law of action by default requires an equal and opposite reaction. You get what you put in the ground, you reap what you sow; you get what you give to others, you suffer consequences for poor actions and good ones. For example, if you cut your arm, you will draw blood. Simple, straight-forward, easy to wrap your mind around because it’s normality as we know it.

Yet, what happens when a higher being steps in and affects our world? Something unexplainable by these straight-forward rules happens. Then what? Well, then, the very nature that is so much apart of us and makes up who we are since we first set foot out of that place known as the womb, kicks in and starts to speak.

Healing? The person claiming healing is lying through their teeth.
Finances improve? Coincidence.
Job opens up? You got lucky.
Someone falls under the power of the Spirit? They faked it.
Prophetic word? An intelligent mind, able to pick the mood.

You get the picture. Everything in the physical realm can be explained, and we so often take that mindset with us into the spiritual realm. Humans are so eager to fight and be defiant for things to make sense, to know the reasons behind something, to know how something works . . . to have all the answers.

We long — have an incredible desire within us — to be right, don’t we?

Yet so many things simply do not make sense. God doesn’t make sense, and personally, I’m not surprised at that. I have a human mind and do not expect to be able to comprehend His ways. I cannot. But where, I believe, the clincher lies in our lives and spirituality is not in the action — the thing that sends our minds scrambling for answers — but the reaction. How we respond to situations that we cannot possibly comprehend, or on a lesser scale, go against our normal way of perceiving things.

Case in hand, the controversy surrounding Ted Dekker’s recent blog. He said some things which many people misunderstood and took the wrong way, missing the thrust behind the article. But it brought out, among other things, a lot of anger and . . . yes, there it was, unmoving, unwavering logic.

I pose two questions:

1. Is your faith going from strength to strength or from defense to defense? 
2. Do logic and ingrained reactions stunt your relationship with God? 

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” –John 20:27-29

Now, I’m not saying we go out and change our beliefs on every breath of the wind against our sails, but I know that, for myself, I have often needlessly remained in the desert because I was not willing to toss logic to the wind and run the incredible race set before me.

We are never clamped in irons, so to speak, but in coherence and intellect and wisdom, but above all, in the fear of abandoning them.

…It’s not that you don’t have the capacity to accept the truth. You don’t want to accept it, and you hide behind your own logic and intelligence while the truth marches by. Step out and join it, for goodness’ sake! Shout it out in full step! I believe!

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