As I grapple with mid-life crisis while trying to find meaning in existence, one particular question from old comes up persistently - "Yea, hath God said,...?" If we applied that question, it would be equivalent to that of trying to obey my Creator and simultaneously rationalizing my daily actions.
We must listen to God only. The trick is knowing what to do with our reason. Obedience is only significant if we have the choice to disobey, and very often the most compelling motive to disobey is our reason. But what price this freedom to decide? Someone once said that while we are free to choose, we are not free from the consequences of our choices.
Rationalizing is a natural response when we don't like what God has said, or, even more so, when we don't hear from Him at all. To put it in another way, many well-meaning Christian friends have said to me, "If you've not heard from God, then maybe He wants you to take the initiative and step out in faith." This and other statements to similar effect shake my faith in God, especially since I am an impatient man, and crave for the big-picture view of circumstances.
For every "Yea, hath God said", can we respond with a "Thus saith the Lord"? Tough.
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