LISTENING TO YOUR FILTER OF BELIEF
'Tis the season when we're grappling with whether Jesus IS or ISN'T...who God and the Bible say He is.
As a young teen, I asked my father how he reconciled evolution and the Bible. He confidently expressed that he believed God set evolution in motion. Something just didn't ring right so I pondered...
My dad was a highly respected civil servant in a small Southern city. He said God first, then family, then work--and lived it. Twenty years after his death, people other than family and friends still remember his impact on their lives and the city he loved.
For me, however, the power of his life came into focus three weeks before his death, when he told my brother he always knew he needed to do "something" with Jesus but refused. He lived his whole life--a good life--without the filter of Jesus. How could he see John 1:3: Everything was created through him [Jesus]; nothing--not one thing!--came into being without him (MSG)? How could my father not be tempted to "add" evolution?
We all live life through a filter of belief. It is a great time of year to listen to our own filter and decide if it should be the filter of Jesus.
