What Does Help Feel Like?

I’m hoping you’ll let me write this a bit differently. Arthur C. Clark said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” That’s just one way of saying we wouldn’t understand that technology, and so we’d simply just call it love. You can shift that thought a bit and use it to consider the same kind of thing when it comes to love. A significantly advanced love (as in the kind of love that comes from someone who’s perspective is much larger than ours) would be hard to understand to. It might not feel like magic, but I’m sure, at times, it could feel a bit ‘rough’ or at least hard to understand.

So all of that made me wonder: what does help feel like? What does help feel like when you are reaching toward second best and don’t know it? What does help feel like when someone wants to help us become the best version of ourselves? What does help feel like when we don’t see the end from the beginning? Lots to consider.

There is a difference between the kind of nice that ‘feels nice’ and the kind of nice that ‘ends nice’. There is also an arguably larger difference between the kind of kindness that gives us what we want, and the kind of kindness that gives us what we don’t even know to ask for. You could call it a ‘complicated kindness’, and that’s what led me to the question I used for a title.

What does help feel like?

So many people view the question of God through a tangled heap of unexamined expectations. We think we will know God by feel. We think we will know God by the kinds of things we think a God would say or do or give or be. But I have a suspicion it wouldn’t always feel like we expect. It’s something to consider.

I’d like to dig into this a bit more on Sunday as we explore “Unwritten Answers”. If you can’t join us on Sunday, tune into the podcast through the week.

Have a great weekend,

Chris