Seeing the Big Picture

A few years back there was an experiment called the "Hubble Deep Field".  Astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope far out into space and collected data from the other side of the universe.  The result were different than expected.  The whole thing is complicated and if you want to know about it, here is a link.  But the main idea is that astronomers discovered that at a fundamental level we don't really get how gravity works.  In some ways we have known about gravity for hundreds of years, since the days of Newton.  But it seems that our true understanding is a bit muddy.

I am a nuts and bolts kind of guy.  I like to know how things work.  This means that sometime faith is hard for me.  I am really uncomfortable with a big question mark hanging over it all.  I like to know how all of the pieces fit together.

I once heard it said that Christianity is like a big ship.  Some people are up on the deck embracing the Sun on their faces and feeling the wind in their hair.  Others are below deck.  Way below deck.  They are poking around in the engine room, tinkering here and there, looking at the schematics, trying to see what makes this thing run.  It sound's familiar.

The universe is vast and beyond our comprehension.  It is not realistic to expect that we would understand all what God is.  In fact, I would say that if God were comprehensible, he would not in fact be worth of worship.    

Watch this clip from Pastor Lowell,

I'm the kind of guy who likes to know how things work, but God doesn't owe me an explanation. Often when I am studying a subject I find that as I learn more I also see how much more there is to know.  Every answer springs up new questions.  So if God did reveal it all, I'm sure that I wouldn't grasp everything anyway.

For me it is enough to see that the pieces can fit together, even if I don't see exactly all of the ways that it happens.  Believeing in the connections that are fuzzy is where faith comes in.

 Like the rest of the human race, I don't completely understand gravity, yet I am sure that it is there.   It's like that with God.