Hunters in action become single-minded. Distractions are kept at bay; the hunted becomes the focus and the passion. Time is set aside to hunt for the all-consuming pursuit. A prize lies in the balance.
We are wired to be on the hunt for God. In our hunting moments, we become single-minded. Distractions are kept at bay, and God the Hunted becomes our Focus and our Passion. We grant time for the moments in which it becomes our all-consuming pursuit. The very discovery of God lies in the balance.
How can we know we are discovering the utter and true God, the Story?
So many people seem to find opposing versions of God.
I believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Others do not. In our conversations, can we pursue hunting ground outside of something written? Is there a hallmark hunting ground that speaks the Story--the utter truth of God--accessible to all of humanity before we point to written trademarks of our differing faiths?
We all reside in the most pristine hunting ground of all--our bodies and the universe. We start there.
The science of our bodies points to a designer, an architect. Even if we think we have that figured out, along comes the moment when disease is miraculously healed, when strength to act in an emergency defies the natural strength of the person, when a prodigy displays his or her gifts to the world; in short, when the inexplicable takes center stage. Now we are pointing to a Designer, an Architect--a supernatural Someone.
We expand our view to the universe, and we are stopped in our all-knowing tracks as the hunt simply becomes too large and too great for our minds to grasp. We have discovered the Hunted--and realize that we, even in our miraculous detail, are the tiniest of the tiny within this universe and see but a mere speck of Him.
And then the greatest mystery of all is before us: why do we--seemingly so tiny, so inconsequential--find within us remarkable capacities to love and forgive? Does God the Story have something to do with these qualities?
Tomorrow: Love, Forgiveness, and the Story
