Hi friends, I had a thought yesterday that I wanted to run past you all. Do you think this is an appropriate analogy for 'reasonable faith'?

When someone tells me that they cannot 'see' God or they have no evidence for God, I often think that they are simply not looking. G.K. Chesterton (and Lewis followed) once wrote about the Sun being something that we cannot look at directly, but it enables us to see everything else.

A blind man may be handsome, but it takes two eyes to see his proportions. Likewise, a spiritually blind person needs help from the outside in order for them to see the spiritual. God must soften their heart and give them the gift of sight (faith). May we be continually praying for our spiritually blind neighbor to receive the gift of sight.

A scientist uses tools to enable him to see things he cannot see with the naked eye; i.e. things like microscopes and telescopes. The spiritualist looks at God through tools as well; i.e. prayer, meditation, scripture reading, worship, communion and ministry. Unlike a telescope which was invented by man at one point in the past, God implanted in us the tools we need for spirituality.

The walking dead (you and me) can use a microscope just as well as the spiritually blind. It takes a resurrected pagan to see that the he is alive in Christ. (Romans 8:10)

Thoughts?