God of the Unseen

Believe it or not, there are folks in this world who believe in things like "coincidences," "luck," and "pure chance." Things that "just happen," completely out of the blue. 

I am not one of these folks. 

I was reading a book recently by a person who claimed to be both a scientist and a Christian, and she claimed that science believes - at this point in human history - that it can only account for about 5% of all things in the entire universe. Put another way, science is ready to confess than 95% of the stuff that's "out there," we haven't even discovered yet. 

So if you're a person who believes in science, that's 95% of stuff that's affecting your life that we don't know about, can't account for, and don't understand. 

The question, then, obviously becomes: can't faith account for it?

Can't faith in God account for what we don't understand? We confess that God is mystery. We know that we cannot fathom Him in our finite minds. We know that He is doing more in the world than we can ask or imagine, than we can possibly begin to understand. We know that even what we do understand, we don't really understand. 

We know that sound and light both can travel in waves, but we don't know why they travel in waves. We know that different colors come across different frequencies in the spectrum, but we can't explain how it is that we process them that way. We know that a seed becomes a full-fledged plant, but how a walnut becomes a giant tree, nobody really knows. DNA, we say, but okay...what? 

Then, we say there's coincidence. We say there's chance. We say there's luck. We say that the 95% of stuff we can't account for (which, by the way, is a complete guess in and of itself, for how can you know how much you don't know?) just "randomly" bumps up against itself or something else and creates opportunities and goodness and love...

...and yet, if those same things bump up against themselves or something else and create disaster, panic, illness, and pain, we wonder why God isn't good any more. Go figure. 

So whatever you want to believe, it's cool, I guess - to each their own. But the question comes back to what we can't explain, whether that's science or chance or luck or whatever you want to call it. 

For me, it's pretty easy - it's God. 

Paul says, in the opening to his letter to the Colossians, that our God is the one who created everything, including the "visible and the invisible" (1:16). 

In other words, that stuff you can't account for? Maybe it's the invisible stuff that God still created. That chance? Maybe it's divine. That luck? Maybe it's favor. That coincidence? Maybe it's blessing. 

Your life? Maybe it's love. 

In fact, I know it is. For God so loved the world...and that means you, too.