Here I go again. I must confess to getting upset when viewing the various educational channels on TV. Not one station has offered an alternative view to the “theory” of evolution. Therefore, most of us just accept what is being said.
The scientists all note the complexity of the cell. The majority of the scientific community is sold on the belief that life developed spontaneously and randomly. All admit not knowing just how the single cell developed from “nothing”. The complexity of the cell and the genetic material within the cell holds the key to our very existence.
God pays attention to details. He hasn’t missed a thing in relation to those cells and the millions of encoded messages that lie within the cell itself. Sometimes these cells go awry……that’s cancer. Sometimes they don’t protect us, or they mutate causing people to develop a variety of illness or humans born with deformities.
Is God capricious? Doesn’t He care about what humanity must suffer? After all, He is the great genetic engineer who designed all of this.
But then there’s us. You and me. If He knows and cares about the complexities of a single cell……certainly He knows the complexities of our life. And life is full of complexities. If not now……then later.
I tell myself that despite all…….all the meaningless and frightful times of life, that God is there.
The rabbis don’t insist on answers from God. They accept the complexity of God Himself. “The Lord gave and the Lord takes away….blessed be the name of the Lord.”(Job 1:21)
Yes, He is unknowable and yet we know Him, through Messiah, Jesus. We don’t understand the complexities of creation but we see the Creator through His workmanship.
The Devil was allowed to torment Job. His friends gave partial answers as if they could solve the problem of suffering. In the end of course, when Job questioned God, he was told only what God wanted him to know. Actually nothing!
“Although painful we must repent of our insistence for an answer, seeing the very demand as a form of idolatry.” (Randy Newman’s book, Questioning Evangelism)
No, God doesn’t owe us answers, but He knows us and hears us. Living without an answer can be liberating. Once we accept the unknowable complexities as part of life then we are free to seek God for comfort, hope, healing and peace.
If He knows the complexities of a tiny cell then He certainly knows us.
AbideLines 