Don and Paul meet a guy in a diner that gives them a "free breakfast" hand-written coupon on a business card. They enjoy a fantastic meal with lots of food and then go out to fix the gasoline leaking van. Don basically climbs in the engine compartment to look around. He finds a hole and a bolt that looks to fit the hole. "It couldn't be that easy," says Don. I don't understand how a radiator fan doesn't slice Don up when they start the van, but maybe he crawled out first. They start to wonder if God set them up with this little scenerio just so they could meet a couple people and share a meal there.
It's a mystery how God participates in our lives. Sometimes I wonder if there's a balance between a close charismatic "God is interested in all the details" kind of relationship and the deist philosophy that God created everything and then stepped back to perpetually stay out of the way. One trite answer that seems to make sense of this chasm is: "It is as according to your faith."
Some people, for sure, don't bother asking God to help them with a problem or a scenerio. They don't think of asking Him and they probably don't want His help. We think we have it all figured out and assume that 'we can do this on our own.'
There's another person that assumes God is part of everything, from the timing of a sunset to the changing of a red light. Perhaps this person assumes things that God is not directly involved in. I wonder what the true balance or answer is...
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at December 5, 2006 10:09 AM