God is Here
August 4, 2003
Astrophysicist Dr. Hugh Ross suggests we imagine
that the two-dimensional image on a television screen actually
consists of a living two-dimensional world. If you placed your
fingertip on the screen, what would the people in the
two-dimensional world see? Your fingertip would be a flat,
round, two-dimensional image that would look like a dot. No one
in that world would be able to see or comprehend depth any more
than a blind person could comprehend color.
If you entered that two-dimensional world and told
the people about the three-dimensional world outside of their
own, some would believe. But nobody would possess depth
perception. They would have to take the existence of such a
world by faith.
Similarly, God doesn't exist just on the other
side of the galaxy. He is with us. On occasions he has made
himself known through the appearance of angels, a message to the
prophets, or, in the case of Moses, a burning bush. His greatest
manifestation occurred when he actually became a man, Jesus
Christ. John said he and others saw Jesus with their eyes and
touched him with their hands (1 John 1:3).
The challenge we face is believing in the presence
of a God we can't see or touch. Jesus understood the difficulty
of such faith. After the resurrection he told Thomas, "Because
you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have
not seen and yet have believed" (John 20:29).
Did you catch that last phrase? God's blessing is
ours if we'll choose to believe in the One we can't see. How do
we do that? Throughout each day take a moment and reflect on the
fact that God is in you and with you. Thank him for his
presence. Ask him for the grace you need to continue to trust in
him even when you don't sense his presence. But take another
step...determine to live each moment with a conscious awareness
of God's presence. That, my friend, will change the way you
think, act, and speak.
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