Excessive Reasonability Vs. Blind Credence

It's the hardest thing for people to see without eyes, and harder still to truly believe in that wholly-trusting version of "sight". In other words, being human is to believe in yourself and those around you upon instinct, but to believe in some untouchable, nonphysical alpha-presence is to go against your trustworthy, selfish mindset and put your insecurities behind you. This is the hardest bush for people, today, to hack past, and harder still (sometimes) for those of us who do see it to give that understanding to them.

"If someone says, 'I love God,' but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don’t love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see?"
~1John 4:20

The following piece is taken from an interview that the main character of a (fictional) story has with two men who are trying to believe the grand tales he tells of all his trying misadventures.

"The arrogance of big-city folk! You grant your metropolises all the animals of Eden, but you deny my hamlet the merest Bengal tiger!"
"Mr. Patel, please calm down."
"If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?"
"Mr. Patel--"
"Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?"
"We're just being reasonable."
"So am I! I applied my reason at every moment. Reason is excellent for getting food, clothing and shelter. Reason is the very best tool kit. Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater."
~Life of Pi (pg.297)

 

“It is faith alone, in Christ alone, which alone moves God, when you are alone.”

~Rex Rouis

Try that one out for some brain maze! Faith can go a long way, as with passion. It's like duct tape: it can solve any problem if you let it!

"Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God."

~Ephesians 3:17-19