The One Thing

At meetings for a summer mission I have been challenged to think about what I know about God? Not just what I know from the Bible, but from my life, my personal experiences. The one thing I really know to be true. The one thing no one could take away from me. When I doubt, what is it that I can not get away from, what do I base my faith on. What am I certain of, and how do I know.

I came up with three main things that I always hold to be true. So here our three main things;


I do not know about you, but I often stand in wonder of beauty, complexity and intricacy of two things- The Human Body and The World. I can not possibly comprehend that all of what we see, just happened, there had to be thought behind it, a plan. When I look at the stars and the moon at night, I see glory and power, that points to something bigger, bigger than me. When I think how even the basic movement of a finger works I am see complexity that requires planning- My brain sends a signal to my finger, which causes muscles in the forearm/palm of the hand to pull/release a tendon in the finger.  The thumb alone is controlled by 9 muscles, and 3 nerves. Not only do I see planning in the amazing human body, and the world but in my own life- coincidences upon coincidences. Simply put I can not imagine a world with out a creator, with out a life giver, a master planner- who is still working through His plan.

Secondly each one of us no matter how different have inside us a knowledge of what is right and wrong. It doesn't vary much between us all either, even between nations. It is not always what we want to do, or what is most beneficial for us, since it often involves giving to others, and putting aside our own wants and desires. So why would we have created it? It often goes against what we wish to do, and we can never fully live up to it, no matter how good we are. And so i believe there must be a moral creator, who lives up to true morality. The amazing thing is that despite how much I mess up, He still wants to know me and sent His only son to take the cost of my sin, that I might have that relationship through Christ and join Him in heaven. 


And lastly, I know from experiences that God is love. Not love that we know, a perfect love, an unconditional love. This in-between year for me has been a lonely one at times, chemistry class for two hours a day during the week isn't the same as school and many friends have moved on to university. God has always been there, even during the most loneliest times, he is there and he loves me and reminds me of the bigger picture.  A few instances pop to my mind of how i know God's love, not just from reading the Bible but often from His words speaking to my heart. In fact I believe my first blog entry was on one of those. 

After thinking it through I deciding there were almost two big questions there, which most certainly over lap, but are still separate- 

 1.) How do I know there is a God?

 2.) What do I know about Him?


Ultimately salvation belongs to God, it is not my 'insight' that saved me,  but God revealing himself. And it is only through Christ I have been made right in the sight of a holy God. 


"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God" 
Ephesians 2:8