The shift comes in the listening.
We are hunting--as we are wired to do--for the utter and true God, the one that lies above our differing faiths, the True Story.
We listen to creation.
We listen to the miraculous.
Perhaps most importantly, we listen to the redemption that lies in stories of incredible love and forgiveness.
A daughter-in-law forgives her mother-in-law's tragic mistake of running over their precious toddler.
A father forgives his son's murderer, and teams up with the grandfather of that very perpetrator of crime. Their shared vision? To help young people not fall victim to hate and the powerlessness of lack of self-leadership.
These stories come from people of differing faiths. But in common lie Love and Forgiveness.
When we listen for Love and Forgiveness in action, something within us stirs. We get a glimpse of God, our Hunted.
That is how we know. Those of us who find the utter and true God in the Bible, whose Story is the revelation of Jesus in history, recognize that which we are wired to find.
But we began this hunt thinking of the whole of humanity, including those for whom the Bible has never been an option.
Love and Forgiveness awaken our wiring that hunts for God. Of all the written trajectories of faith, the Bible alone explains the redemptive, supernatural power of Love and Forgiveness.
The utter and true God meets our genuine hunt with the greatest prize of all: the discovery of Jesus, the very embodiment of Love and Forgiveness.
