A couple of weeks ago, as I tutored some local children one afternoon, another tutor talked to them about God being the Creator of all things. When he finished one little girl looked at me and asked, “Who made God?”
I smiled and replied, “No one.”
“But someone had to make Him.”
I shook my head, “He’s always been here…always.”
One little boy piped up, “Maybe it was the robots.”
“Robots?” I asked.
“Yeah, maybe the robots made Him, and then He made us—“
“Who made the robots then?” I asked.
“Oh…yeah…hmm…I don’t know.”
We like to have answers. Not just answers, but clear answers. Sometimes we create mechanical ways of thinking to help us avoid dealing with the difficulties of not knowing certain things by empirical evidence. We want answers that make sense to us in our immediate situation that clarify all cloudiness and tie up all loose ends neatly and quickly. Sometimes the uncertainty pushes us to the point where we realize that, with our limited human minds, we don’t have all the answers, and our trust in God will be tested. As a close friend of mine says, “God likes this faith business.”
The writer of Hebrews gives what most Christians quote as the definition of faith: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Heb. 1:1,2). In other words, faith is the very realization of and the confidence in that which we can not fully explain by our human senses and experimentation. Sometimes we place great value upon our faith, or our trust, in God. It is valuable (“more precious than silver” according to the bible) and will be tested, but our faith can not become the object upon which we depend. Our faith, at its core, really isn’t about what we do or do not understand; true faith is about who God is. We place our faith in Him and His ability, wisdom and power. Our faith is not in our faith; it’s in Him. No matter how hard we may try to figure everything out and continually come up short, we must trust that He holds complete knowledge of all things…no robots required.
Dustin C. George
Minister to Single Adults
www.sevierheights.org
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