SCRIPTURE: Acts 2:1-13
“They have had too much wine.” (Acts 2:13)
How to dismiss something you don’t like or believe.
Trivialize it, explain it away, dismiss it as a human scam or weakness.
There must be some natural, physical or psychological explanation.
This bias towards disbelief is in all of us, when we don’t like something.
When I hear of healings by televangelists, I quickly thing they are scams?
When I hear of miracles, I think about ‘natural’ reasons.
Why, because the supernatural scares me, I can’t control what I can’t understand.
Yes there may be logical natural explanations, but there may be a logical spiritual explanation too.
I think of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis.
Peter and Susan tell the Professor how of course Lucy is making up the magical wardrobe story.
‘Logic!’ said the Professor half to himself. ‘Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not mad. For the moment then and unless any further evidence turns up, we must assume that she is telling the truth.’
Why dismiss the tongues of fire as ‘too much wine’, when there is a logical spiritual explanation.
I’m not saying you have to accept it, but do not dismiss it so quickly either.
What do you sense the Lord saying to you?
PRAYER
Lord, forgive me for being closed minded, and dismissing the supernatural with natural explanations. I do believe in Your power, I am just doubtful often it is You. Keep me from being both closed-minded and gullible.