Month: March 2014

I have lately been pondering the different ways of searching out God and His will. Two seemingly opposing ways are logically analysing what His will is and simply experiencing His guidance. If we decide that logical thinking is the opposite of experiential action and analytical thinking is the opposite of simple actions we can look at who God is and see how he prefers us to follow His directions. Lets look at two scenes in the Bible. Jesus at age 12 was logically analysing what was offered by the church teachers. Jesus completely changes His approach in His ministry and simply experiences the Fathers will. From illogically spitting in the mud for some blind guy to washing His disciples feet He was simply experiencing how His Father had taught Him to live. On the other end we have the Israelites in Egypt for 400 years before Moses introduced the Fathers power. They experienced lots of illogical stuff. Bloody water, rocks that spewed out water and manna were just a few yet they insisted on deviating from Gods will. Whats the difference? Jesus and the Israelites both had the same information, they both had the same God and both experienced that Gods miracles. Jesus logically analysed who God was so when it came time to follow Him He simply experienced what He knew. The Israelites simply experienced God but logically analogized who He was and because it didnt make sense to what they knew missed who He was. My conclusion and revelation: Its not bad to logically analyse who God is through the Bible but when it comes to knowing His will He wants us to simply experience His walk with us.