two authors that i have read have perfectly described God's presence in this world. I'll start with my favorite Ted Dekker. First of all I would recomend his books to anyone, they combine action with thought provoking questions of faith. If you wish to read i would suggest starting with his circle triology and going from there. All of his books are connected, but other than the Circle trilogy they do not need to read in any order. Anyway back to the topic of this post. Dekkers description goes something like this. Your at a doorway, with someone on the other side. Close the door, is the other person still there? There is no way you can know for certain, but we can assume yes even though none of our "senses" tell us that person is. Can you see how this can be applied to God? He's always there, just not visible to our human senses. We can infer He's there through His influence in our life and our faith but there is not one of our senses firing impulses to our brain to confirm this knowledge.
Now for the next idea. this one comes from Tim Lahaye (coauthor of the left behind series) and Bob Phillips. Their description is laid out as follows; imagine a kite. You let the string of the kite unravel until it is so far away that you can no longer see it. How do you know the kite is still there? The only way is through the slight tug on the string. Well think of God as the kite. He is out of our life visibly, but remains connected through that little string. He tugs on our heart to make the right decisions. He tugs on others hearts so they make the right decisions.
I think these are really good ideas and wanted to share them with you.
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