God can be trusted! If you are finding this lesson of trust, difficult to learn, read my article below. It will help you believe in God. Once you believe in Him, it is easier to trust Him.

“God sits above the circle of the earth. The people below seem like grasshoppers to him! He spreads out the heavens like a curtain and makes his tent from them.” Isaiah 40:22

The ant exists in his own little world. Within himself he feels wise. He feels that he knows everything.

He thinks that his little ant brain is it. The absolute! He knows all the ant hills. He knows the ant trails. He is the smartest ant around. He speaks ant.

He loves crawling into boxes. He thinks these big structures will teach him what he needs to know. He spends a lot of time hanging out inside the square. He knows the corners perfectly. The little escape cracks that take him out of the boxes keeps him busy.

One day the ant decides to think outside the square. So he leaves his box. He figures he knows everything in life but he is getting bored.

On the way he meets me, Helen Olenjin, the blogger.

He suddenly becomes big enough so he can see me.

A big blogger faces a big ant.

We are both the same size now.

We talk.

A bit like the talking donkey scenario in the Bible.

Where you would say, “Huh? That doesn’t fit.”

The ant can understand my English with his new but still limited supernatural brain.

He hears me but he still doesn’t completely understand yet.

I get this!

As I just googled and read, “Each ant’s brain is simple, containing about 250,000 neurons, compared with a human’s billions.” (sciencefocus.com)

He has lived in dirt for so long that is all he knows.

I tell him about life above the dirt.

I tell him about humans.

I tell him about our complex networks above ground.

He hears about our cities, our countries, the internet, electricity, cars, mobile phones, planes and all the high tech stuff. He hears about social distancing. This is very surprising to him! His tribe are super squashed together.

In his world, ants can’t measure the 1.5 meters. Hand washing? Nah, never heard of it! He doesn’t even know what a hand is. Simple maths and literacy skills are incomprehensible to his tiny brain.

When I try to explain to him how to sign into Facebook, I notice he gets really offended.

He simply doesn’t get me! He even refuses to believe in Apple!

But then the ant slowly learns. The more I talk, the more his humility grows.

The ant thought He knew absolute truth. In actual fact, he was dead wrong.

He only believed a false absolute.

“A false absolute is not the same as absolute truth,” I patiently explain.

He crawls home with a huge dose of humble pie on his back.

He thinks, “How wrong I was. I thought my square was the whole world!”

This ant makes me think of a human who refuses to even logically consider the possibility of a God!

My theoretical ant was an atheist! But he made progress!

The iPhone talk finally broke him. He understood that if he could not comprehend the iphone, he indeed was created!

In that exact moment, he grew.

“I have a Creator!” he shouted.

“My unbelief in Him stopped me from growing for all these years!”

OK, end of my ant story.

So where does that put us humans doing SOAP?

SOAP stands for Scripture, Observation, Application and Prayer. It is an excellent study method to use at it encourages you to focus on God’s Word and apply these lessons to your own life.

If a human had a conversation with God during SOAP/Bible study, we would be like the ant. Blown again by heavenly truths we never knew existed. I don’t think we could even understand God at his level. Just like the ant can’t understand ours.

Now is your hardest SOAP question answered?

Not so offended at the real God anymore?

Yes, yes, yes!!

Finally we start to spiritually grow. Like the ant. We finally understand that the God we were believing in previously, was fiction. God didn’t like your fictitious God either!

Becoming an ant short term was not a wasted SOAP exercise for me.

It showed me how small we really are.

And how full of ourselves we are.

And how wrong we can be about God and life.

We only see the world from our own tiny human shell.

We have a very close personal relationship with our own shell.

We know it perfectly.

We may think our shell is our whole world. We may perceive this to be everything and the absolute truth. We may centre all our thoughts, beliefs and perceptions around self.

Like the ant we may create our own personal reality through it. But is this the absolute truth? Of course not. It is only an ant’s eye view.

An ant atheist thinks the thoughts he has in his shell represents absolute truth.

“I don’t believe in God based on 250 000 neurons, therefore he doesn’t exist.”

“Or because I cannot grasp how the iPhone works, I also don’t believe in God. Simply because both are unexplainable to my tiny brain.”

As you and I struggle to write SOAP we see the reality of the situation.

We are like the ant too. But with 86 billion neurons. Still a tiny brain next to God.

We have a tiny Biwbel (Squeaky voice for Bible).

We wrote a tiny SOAP.

We are SOAPING from the perspective of tiny.

But we still keep going as the application of it makes perfect sense through faith in God.

My SOAP view trusts God and His Word. But not my human brain only.

For the Christian, faith is always stronger than logic.

But we still need to keep logic.

With this ant’s logic and faith, he would finally be able to grasp the incomprehensible belief that God really existed!

When 1 + 1 didn’t = 2, he could coolly surrender to faith in the supernatural workings of God above the dirt!

We become like the ant too, no longer getting offended when 1 + 1 doesn’t always=2.

God’s math system doesn’t always make sense!

Hello faith!

When we use faith and logic together, others who don’t have full faith yet, are more inclined to listen to your Christian beliefs.

So keep talking to the logical atheist you know or the former burnt Christian. Remember that God Himself will open their eyes through faith supernaturally, not by logic alone.

But “logic” can still be an initial stepping stone towards faith.

“Dear God. I am struggling to believe in You. Please reveal Yourself to me. I am your creation. You are my Creator. Please show me the right way. In Jesus name. Amen.”