Restless Wonderer

So far in this series I have written about God’s ‘writing’ in creation (biologically through DNA and morally through the conscience) and in providence (His foreseeing of our lives).   We have seen that God created the cosmos and that He continues to be actively involved in its unfolding story.   The question this raises is how we can recognise where He is at work and how we can know what He is like.   The answer is that God has revealed Himself to us.   The great religions of the world can be broadly categorised into two types.   The religions of East and South Asia can be described as ‘mystical’ – they originated in the reflections of individuals on the nature of human existence and ultimate reality.   In China Confucius and Laozi and in India the Buddha and various Hindu sages developed theories about the basic problem with human existence and its solution through reason or meditation.   Their philosophies often display considerable uncertainty abo...

2.      The Christian mind seeks truth in God’s Word “Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin” (Romans 7:25). In the previous post we acknowledged that God's ways cannot be fully understood by the limited human mind.  This is not, however, to say that nothing can be known about God and His ways.  We can know whatever God has communicated to us of Himself and His purposes and God has, indeed, revealed Himself in Scripture.     In Romans 7, Paul describes how his mind was surrendered to God’s Law, meaning the Old Testament Scriptures and the truths recorded in them.   Through reading it He recognised what was true and what was false.   Of course, this was not enough on its own – he found that he did not have the power to keep the Law as his sinful nature was in slavery to sin and this caused him great i...