We tackled more on the age where the Gnosticism is starting to spread among the people. And it caused to them to want to know and understand more, to be able to explain almost everything that if they fail to give an explanation on a thing or a belief they will not believe it no longer. And that’s what happen to the people, they are slowing drifting away from their religious belief because they don’t have the ability to explain things that they want to really understand. Or that because they can’t get answer to everything that they needed to believe in. The age of reasoning had really made a great population to turn away from the belief that they had grown just because they can’t explain it, they come to believe that it is not true. It’s not something new in our life today and for the people of our days. But rather it’s a strong truth! Most people wants to know a lot of things. They wanted things to be explained, but that’s not what God is. For God is unfathomable, we could not explain him nor his nature and characteristics. For if one could explain God, then he's no longer God anymore.
In my own life, I do experience times when I try to put God in a box and try as hard as I can to be able to explain him and understand him further. There are times that I really wanted so badly to be able to understand situations and experiences that I encounter in life. To know why he allow such thing to happen, to understand why he didn’t some desires to be fulfill, why would he give such a hurt when I only want to live well, and a lot of why’s that I wanted him to explain. At times I even make my own way of digging further to understand and explain things that I wanted Him to answer . And again and again just like before; like a thousand times before I always fail to have them answered or explained. I learned from those experiences that I should not force all things that happen to me to be understood. Not all things needs to be explained, sometimes things should not be bare open, for us to know and be reminded that God is God. And also for us to be remained humbled and be saved from the pride of knowing a lot of things.
To be able to changed that attitude of ‘wanting to know it all’ to a positive life of ‘trusting God who knows it all’. I ought to always be dependent and reliant on God in everything. To strengthen my faith in Him, to be able to trust that even if I don’t have any idea of what was happenings I will still believe its for my own good. I will also refrain from doubting and just believed. To just follow the road that tells me to trust. I will refrain from wanting to know a lot of thing about, but will just strike the balance of it all. Because the more the person knows more of God that will just led us to be more away from him because of the acquired knowledge.
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