For the Likes of Christopher Hitchens
Posted: Tuesday, June 09, 2009
by Jean Purcell
OpineBooks.com
You are a well-known public figure that rejects the private and personal gospel of Jesus Christ. You seem to hate it.
One cannot help wondering whether or not you are repulsed by others' miscommunications of it, or if you are inspired by your desire not to seem average or foolish. I have wondered about your disappointments.
I have wondered if you have read the words of Jesus, and with an open mind. Perhaps not yet.
You may have whispered, "I want God to stay away from me!" You may have shouted, "I want nothing to do with God!"
And so you have it. You seem like one who wanders from wayside to wayside. You seem to desire the cold of not knowing, the dryness of not caring and believing yourself uncared for.
That is how you seem.
You seem to scoff at the truth and call it fiction, fairy tale, and myth.
You seem to have chosen Cynic's thin robe, yet you wear it like armor.
When besotted by your thoughts and words, you will one day be off your guard. By God's grace, you will look up and see clearly that He is offering you a lift up.
What will you say?
I hope and pray for you to know God. In honesty, I must warn you: He is Spirit and Person; He relates personally, uniquely, and truly. Neither ideas, religions, philosophies, nor theologies can do that. They are impersonal, which makes them preferable to most.
God always knows when a sincere one says toward the One they are not sure is there: "I ask for You to show me now, just as I am: Are You real?"
He who is beyond and above the limitations of time and space answers clearly to the ear ready to be opened and to hear.
Then comes awakening to repentance. And then, the one formerly locked in unbelief sets himself "to do the truth, he is on the way to know all things. Real knowledge has begun to grow possible for him."* *George MacDonald, "Life Essential," Chapter Two, "The Remission of Sins."
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