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I’ve given a lot of thought to this.

I consider this world, our corner of the universe, the “Great Faith Experiment.” God, above all, is the creator. In his desire to create faith, grace, mercy and the many things that flow from them, he created biological creatures that could only see God through the eyes of faith. We have been removed from the Divine Presence, yet the Divine is all around us. The only way to see God is through the eyes of faith. Faith is so important that it is credited to us as righteousness.

It brings to mind a couple of scriptures from I Corinthians:

“No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.” – I Cor 11:19

“My conscience may be clear, but that does not make me innocent.” – I Cor 4:4

If God were to directly intervene in our every dispute, then our faith would become sight. What could then be credited to us as righteousness? No, God works through our disputes while maintaining the veil of faith. We trust him that the outcome will show his will. As men, we demand that our way of thinking is right. When the subject is benign, we often go about with our differences of opinion. When the matter is grave we fight, we take up arms, we go to war hoping and even demanding that God is on our side.

And we hope and pray that when the fight is over that we have not entered into a period of evil, but that God’s will has been done. We hope that the right will have prevailed and that the losers through humility will have been shown that they were wrong and will accept the Divine Providence of the Lord.