“Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord …” – Isaiah 1:18
Critical thinking is an important and often neglected aspect of our faith. God is not someone or something that we simply attach to our lives, as if Divinity were just another fashionable accessory. God is a living being and an active concept with whom we must struggle, wrestle, search and investigate. God is that complex and unavoidable life-paradox that reveals just enough of himself so that we can authentically know and relate to him, but never reveals enough for us to claim that we have completely exhausted him. We consequently have to actually think (reason) about/with God, and as much as we devotionally worship God. And that’s the way God wanted it …
Today’s Prayer: God. Hear me today. Thank you for revealing yourself to me. I know you, because you wanted me to know you. The revelation you have given me is more than enough for me to authentically and personally engage you and your way. I do know there is more too! I know there is so much more to you, God! My small thoughts and thinking do not even come close to exhausting your reality, God. I pray today that you help me to be or become the balanced human being you created and desire me to be or become. Help me, God, to engage you critically. Help me to think! Today, I want to think critically and devotionally about you, God. Meet me there.
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