I love evenings. To me, they are the frosting on the cake. I love to sit down to dinner with my family and collectively “catch our breath” after a, hopefully, good and productive day. In warm weather we play outside, go for walks and hang out on the front porch. Winter evenings are spend with Ryan playing guitar, playing games or watching a show together. Ryan and I made a conscious decision several years ago to try to avoid too many evening obligations and rather focus on spending time together as a family.
Last night we played Trouble, which is a fun game that even Ellie can play (and practice her counting skills!). We then tuned into Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? Cute show though we’ve only seen it a couple of times.
Ryan and I were amazed, though, at one of the contestants. His relativism was oozing! He was an icon of this 21st century phenomenon of “feeling truth” rather than “knowing truth”. His first question was about male turtles laying eggs – True or False. He said, “I feel it – it is true!” COME ON! We don’t feel certain truth. We know it. This first grade science question, for example. Another example is the truths that we are given in God’s Word. I don’t want to just feel them, I want to be able to stand on them and know them. That way, when I am blown around by the uncertainty of my own flesh, I at least have a marker to look to and know which way is true north.
There is a quote by Oswald Chambers that has been on my cabinet door for years: “Faith is the deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
Sure, I know I can’t always be confident in my choices or of the world around me, but I can be sure of the promise of God’s character. Why? Because the Bible tells me so.