Devotion for the weeks of July 15 -28, 2007

I was reading about the agnostic Thomas Huxley on another website about agnostics and came across a reported conversation he had with a Christian who was being sincere in his questioning Huxley’s scepticism. This believer stressed to Huxley that he was not in any way criticizing Huxley system of belief. The Christian asked Huxley if he understood color-blindness. That no matter how much a person may try to tell a color blind person that he is wearing a red shirt. That no matter the facts that are there for most people to see, the color blind person can not see the color red. Huxley was then asked,Could it be that this was Huxley's problem--that he was simply blind to truth that was quite evident to others? Huxley, being a man of integrity, admitted that this was possible, and added that if it were, he himself, of course, could not know or recognize it. I believe Huxley was blind to a great many truths.

To people of faith, it is quite evident that we live in a universe inhabited by God. To think otherwise would deny the facts of life as we experience them. Could such an extraordinary world have happened without a divine hand directing it? Believers cannot deny their faith simply because others are blind or deaf or insensitive to what seems to be plainly evident to us. As far as we are concerned the burden of proof is on the non-believer. And rarely are they as confident as they pretend.

Lead me in your truth, and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all day long. (Psalm 25.5)