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Thinking about God in Reverse

So, let me get this straight –
You have an idea — just some whim, a plan, a sched­ule — a notion of maybe a pat­tern by which you can live your life. Maybe it’s that all the things that involve even num­bers are good or some­thing.
You check out your plan — you apply it to your life — you notice that it seems to have some con­sis­tency — but maybe there are times when it doesn’t apply… so you mod­ify it — you extrap­o­late to the point that you give your new sys­tem a per­son­al­ity — resolv­ing that this sys­tem some­times judges you and finds you not valid enough to apply the magic of even num­bers — you’ve sinned against your sys­tem — but oth­er­wise, it’s con­sis­tent.
Now, in your magic sys­tem with even num­bers, basi­cally any sit­u­a­tion is cov­ered — when things are good, and the even num­bers are present — you attribute it to the magic … life is bal­anced — when things are bad, and it’s all odd num­bers — you’re sad, but some­how com­forted because at least the sys­tem is still true — there’s a ratio­nal­ity to the uni­verse.
You even go so far as to dis­play faith­ful­ness — when things are good and you have odd num­bers — you real­ize it’s a false good­ness — a pride­ful gain and you rebuke it for the temp­ta­tion that it is — when things are bad and it’s all even num­bers — you fall back to real­iz­ing that you’ve turned away from the num­bers — not the other way around.
So, you’ve got a sys­tem that meets you and greets you when you wake up in the morn­ing, helps you go through the times of con­fu­sion and trial — and even promises to give you a sense of pro­tec­tion and sen­si­bil­ity when you’re over­whelmed.
Then a man walks up, puts a gun to your head and demands you to rebuke the num­bers.
I’m just hav­ing trou­ble believ­ing that you’d rather die than let go of your plan … even though it’s a nice pat­tern and it works for you — would you REALLY die for it?
The real­ity is that there are many peo­ple who, when tested, just can’t stand up to their faith — because their faith is based on THEIR abil­ity to gen­er­ate an under­stand­ing.
True Chris­t­ian Faith is based upon meet­ing the per­son — com­ing face-to-face in the Spirit with Jesus Christ and learn­ing that He is real.
I’m not look­ing for God — He’s a friend of mine.