Faith teaches us that God is-that He is the fact of life from which all other things take their meaning and reality. All of us want the assurance of not being deserted by life nor deserted in life.

A man must have a sense of being cared for, of not being alone and stranded in the universe. The second demand is that He be personal and intimate. The stars in the universe, the great galaxies of spatial groupings moving in endless rhythmic patterns in the trackless skies, as well as the tiny blade of grass by the roadside, are all within His grasp. First, He must be vast, limitless, transcendent, all-comprehensive, so that there is no thing that is outside the wide reaches of His apprehension. The human spirit has two fundamental demands that must be met relative to God. But let us not be led astray by this apparent abstraction. A simple reason for this is the fact that, if there is that to which God may be finally reduced, then He is not ultimate. It is obvious that, in the last analysis, proof of the existence of God is quite impossible. At no point is this fact more clearly demonstrated than in an individual’s growing knowledge of God.

Not only is faith a way of knowing, a form of knowledge, but it is also one of life’s great teachers. Christ is God’s presence incarnated in all of Creation, before and beyond time. This is why Christians have both Jesus and Christ: In Jesus, God was given a face and a heart we could trust, in one moment of time. Like many mystics, Howard Thurman saw that humans need to relate to a God that is both beyond rational thought-what I might call a force field of love-and very relatable and personal.

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