Apologetics
Saving and waving-
Driving my way to work, through a thick fog, on an unseasonably warm, early Iowa morning, I experienced a life saving "wave" from God, of sorts.
I , and others, I'm sure, have contemplated the forthcoming idea. That, as we drive through dense, almost impenetrable fog, we find ourselves at times relying solely upon those red colored tail lights as the only indication to us on where exactly the cars ARE that lie ahead.
The following frightening idea has crossed my mind several times in the past:
What if those, barely visible tail lights ahead that appear to be the tail lights of a couple of different far off cars that are spread a bit apart, on a winding road.... well, what if those lights are REALLY the lights of only ONE truck, that is much, much closer than we perceive?
Such a reality check as that, happened to me that densely dewey morning.
For some reason, up ahead, and through the fog, my eyes were drawn to a strangely visible speed limit sign. What was so ethereal about this sign, though, was that it appeared to be waving. It was moving, it seemed, several times, back and forth, and side to side by what seemed like at least four or five foot lurches. This sudden and strange phenomena caught my attention, causing me to say to myself something like "what the heck is that?". I instantly hit my foot on the brake, and It was a most fortunate thing that I did. In front of me, in my newly formed visual reality, was a much MUCH closer, than my eyes were telling my brain, semi- truck and trailer, traveling much slower than my own car was travelling. If I had not pushed hard into my brakes when I had, I am quite certain that I would have ran right into the back of that trailer at 60 plus miles per hour.
I have thought a lot about that waving sign since then. It COULD, I suppose, be that the apparent waving of this sign could have been caused by the dissonance between my eyes and my brain. Could it be that a time lapse between what was IN my brain, and what was travelling through my eyes, and then reaching my brain caused my sense of the sign waving? This COULD be a reasonable explanation. But, then the thought occurred to me that THIS is exactly how God seems to work IN our lives and IN this foggy world. We, as humans, often experience this kind of incredible, seemingly supernatural, apparent miraculous phenomena, but then our human nature always seems to come up with some logical way of explaining the "Work of God" away. This kind of idea seems to totally fit in with a theory that I often embrace. That being, if God WERE to show Himself to us in such a concrete, undeniable way (as many unbelievers claim to want), then our Free will to Trust in Him, and have faith in Him , and then to Love Him and ultimately commune with Him would be taken away from us. This WOULD actually be the tragic, usurping away from us, of our free will and our potential realization of His promised Glory for us , that comes as a result of our earthly participation in this most important "cosmic soul examination" .
This kind of mental, physical and spiritual cognitive dissonance seems to be everywhere these days .
Perhaps, Divine "signs" are continually waving in ubiquitous "anonymity" .
Wave on, Dear Lord, and I'll freewillingly wave back.
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