It's been more than a month since my last blog, and I am stuck on that same idea I wrote about in the last blog. I've been exploring it deeper, while I think this is an idea that resonates in all of our hearts (because God put it there)it is incredible realizing it myself. This idea is not formulated by books I've read or talks I've heard, but simply because I asked the Source Himself.
Logic is nothing without passion.
We can logically try to figure God out. We can spend years researching His existence, the validity of the Bible, the list goes on. But God knows He's real. God knows He sent His Son to die for our sins. He knows He created it all. The logic we want is only for ourselves. Logic, in itself, isn't bringing glory to God. It is what we do with that logic that either diminishes His glory, or defines it.
We choose what we do with knowledge. It is God's heart that we love Him and know Him. He wouldn't have given us free will otherwise.
Logic is great for us. But if it points not to God, if our hearts do not fall more in love with Him, all of the logic we possess are thoughts that are held with nowhere to go. I love that humans are logical, and I am not saying at all that we should rely on feelings in order to know God exists. Research why you believe in such divine love that doesn't make sense at all, but once you discover that He is indeed real; I think God's heart is that we experience that divine love.
I bet He thinks it's great we've found He is who He is logically. But I think He wants us to go deeper. C.S. Lewis says it like this: "Why, then, did God give us free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata-of creatures that worked like machines-would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight... And for that they must be free." (Mere Christianity)
I pray that our logic would not diminish the relationship He desires with us. My prayer is that through logic, we would fall more deeply and passionately in love with the humans He created to be in love with Him.
Stellar thoughts.
ReplyDeleteI think its interesting that in general females are naturally more emotional when it comes to believing in something, and males are more logical. Its like God was saying "Hey when the two flesh become one you'll have the complete picture of me".
Some people are so emotionally or logically minded that they are of no practical value whatsoever. The ones who get the most out of life and learn from circumstances are the ones that can bring the two worlds together.
Its always a balance I think. Head and heart. Intellect and emotion... not a war between the two.
I really like what you said in that first paragraph, I had never really thought about it like that. But that is very true, and very interesting!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you completely! I think God created the two to be intertwined, not conflicting with one another which often happens to be the case much of the time.