An 18-Wheeler 18 Years Ago

The cool weather has hit… and around this time of year (during October 2005), on a Friday night on 3rd shift at Ryobi/TTi, another person and I saw something that seemed normal… but within the next few minutes, I realized it was anything but normal. About an hour later, I called and woke Rachael up and tried to explain something unexplainable. 18 years have passed since that night, and it’s still as unexplainable now as it was then…

What do you do when you experience something that you have—and years later still have—no explanation for? Do you push God and his spiritual world back into the little box you had him in, or do you begin filtering everything—EVERYTHING—EVEN THE THINGS YOU CANNOT EXPLAIN—through a biblical worldview?

You bring it all to the Bible. You bring it all to the same Bible with events that, if we will read them and take them at face value, had God outside of a box long before we constructed a box to squeeze him in. The supernatural eye-opening of 2 Kings 6, the torn sky-opening of Mark 1, the angelic prison rescue of Acts 12, the in-the-body or an out-of-the-body trip to paradise of 2 Corinthians 12… you bring what you go through to that Bible, take it to your God, and trust him even if you have unanswered questions 18 years later.

So Christian, as you read your Bible and live this life, don’t insult God by explaining away the unexplainable. Instead, trust the one writing a story that will one day make all superficial attempts to mimic the miraculous look like child’s play. When what we think of as real has faded away and given way to the realities of Revelation 21–22, we’ll see that we don’t have a God that fits in a little box—we’ll see that we have a God that doesn’t even fit in this created universe.