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In the beginning God….

Daily writing prompt
List 10 things you know to be absolutely certain.
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“Are humans just a bag of chemicals and are all our thoughts, emotions and actions just a bunch of chemical reactions?”

“And would a bag of chemicals trust another bag of chemicals to give an adequate response to a question posed by bag of chemicals?”

Only fools say in their hearts, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and their actions are evil; not one of them does good! (Psalm 14:1)

Someone wrote the two comments above. I am absolutely certain about that as I just pasted them onto this page. 😊

These statements I wrote below would most certainly be coming from an atheist point of view…

Hello. I am a chemical.

You are a chemical.

Do you trust me, dear chemical?

We started from nothing.

We started from a bunch of chemicals. We believe that the big bang produced the universe. Later on, all by itself, life came into being, including us perfectly formed accidental humans.

Just like that!

We have no creator.

Faith in God doesn’t exist.

There is no hope of an answered prayer.

There is no hope of a miracle.

There is no hope of supernatural intervention.

There is no hope of heaven.

There is no fear of hell.

There is no divine Master Plan.

The universe never wrote us a book about Itself.

Itself is a mystery to us atheists but we truly believe in It.

It is our God.

It has no name.

We centre our whole life and beliefs around It.

We have no book to prove our belief in atheism. Even though we never witnessed the big bang with our own eyes, we still believe it.

I am absolutely certain that these beliefs above, are someone’s opinion. But not mine.

Philip Skell, formerly Professor of Chemistry at Pennsylvania State University, said, “When the facts don’t fit their creation story, secular scientists must turn to alternative ‘scientific laws’ drawn from their imaginations.”

I am absolutely certain, secular scientists use their imagination. Hello conjecture!

So, I am absolutely certain that super brainy humans still cannot be trusted.

But God can be trusted.

I am absolutely certain God never uses conjecture. So, he must be 100% right!

I am absolutely certain about that!

Be thankful God is helping you to believe in Him, and not the questionable bag of chemicals!

Atheism points to nothing. It has no supernatural book.

Have you ever heard someone shout, “Hurray! This is the best day of my life. I just became an atheist and this belief, set me free. Now everything makes perfect sense and others are commenting on how much my life has changed since becoming an atheist. My atheist light has drawn others into my world and they too, are being transformed in ways I cannot explain! I am loaded with atheist joy, as I live as God in my full-chemical-freedom!”

Huh?

Weird right?

Great news4U dear seeking soul….

God’s Word points to everything. It has a book, the Bible!

If you google true accounts of people’s lives radically changing after reading it and then you google true accounts of people’s lives changing for better after becoming an atheist, you can decide for yourself which path makes the most sense.

God comes out “on top” every time!

I like what someone once said, “There are no real atheists in the emergency room.”

So keep praying, God will answer!

“Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.” (Jeremiah 33:3)

I will be posting a new poem soon, titled “Atheism Doesn’t Make Sense.”

I am absolutely certain about that because the poem is almost finished. 😊

Sorry, I listed more than ten!

Love Helen x

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    Daily writing prompt
    Who do you spend the most time with?
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    Today, I want to answer this writing prompt in my usual, unusual way…by twisting it, to suit my writing needs!

    Who do I spend the most time with?

    I spend the most time with God.

    Even though I may not be aware of His presence all the time, He is always in my mind and never leaves. Now that I have just written this sentence, I have an awareness of how Him and I, are always together 24/7. That’s huge!

    Usually when we think of spending time with someone, it is with another human.

    Today, I am thinking about the other me, “inside me”.

    The one you never see but the one God always sees.

    She is the one I spend my whole life with.

    Spending time with yourself, is one of the most important inner relationships you will have.

    This intrapersonal relationship exists in your mind.

    This poem that I am posting today, talks about the significance of that me to me relationship.

    We often forget we are there.

    This is because we are spending time with other people.

    “Self” gets lost in the process.

    When we become aware of “a healthy self”, it is easier to build a *m.i.n.d.* relationship with God.

    Then instead of saying, “It’s just me to me, we say with full confidence, it’s always, God and me!”

    “And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”

    (Philippians 4:8)

    You are always a we

    Never a me

    Know that your mind

    Is God’s supernatural design.

    God is always inside

    Your silent inner place

    The words you speak here

    Aren’t muted or late.

    God reads your mind

    As if your words are

    Spoken aloud

    He hears them instantly

    Even in a crowd.

    This outside noise

    Doesn’t make it

    Hard for God to hear

    He still hears your mind

    He is very near.

    He made your mind, His

    It doesn’t belong to you

    He made it to be heard

    But with only you.

    God and you

    Are always a pair

    You cannot exclude him

    But He is always there.

    What are building

    Inside this inner space?

    Is it a mind of poverty

    Or God’s daily grace?

    Dear thinking soul,

    You are building all the time!

    Not with cement and bricks

    But with God in your mind.

    Your mind is like a world

    That you cannot see

    You can’t stand in

    Front of the mirror

    And see it visibly!

    Remember your mind is hidden

    IT talks to you all day long

    IT can’t see outside your head

    You must guide IT instead!

    Consider that a thought is one brick

    You then add more and more

    There is no building company

    Inside your head,

    It’s only you, thinking more.

    As you think more

    The bricks grow and grow

    Until finally one day

    A new structure shows.

    Not a visible

    Building outside your mind

    But a dwelling that you imagined

    Of a hidden kind.

    Stop and visit these buildings today

    Open their doors

    And listen to what they say.

    Are these structures sound

    And fortified in heaven?

    Were they built

    With Jesus

    Or God’s truth hidden?

    You forgot God, was there

    When you built without Him

    There was a lie planted there

    It grew stronger with sin.

    The enemy added “one more”,

    It was a deceptive brick of his

    He always built his foundation

    You didn’t notice, it was his!

    Do you see a building that’s huge?

    Do you see a building that’s the tallest?

    It’s the one that towers over the others

    And God’s building is the smallest.

    God saw humans build, one brick at a time

    He was always watching their thoughts

    They ignored His design.

    They thought they knew better

    So they ignored His bricks

    Instead they used Satan’s

    And he made their minds sick.

    Do you see a building that’s the strongest?

    Do you see a building that’s sad?

    A building that’s spiritually empty

    A building that makes you mad?

    Aye yes, I saw mine too

    I built it so very high

    I took the enemy’s bait

    I believed his lies.

    Then God healed my mind

    He crashed Satan’s design

    He uprooted the lies

    Of a dysfunctional kind.

    With a renewed mind

    I see IT today

    I see IT in God’s mirror

    IT speaks to me today.

    Dear child of God

    Be careful

    Dear child of God

    Think right

    Your mind is

    God’s holy place

    It shines with heaven’s light.

    Leave God’s light on

    Every time you think

    Remember to build

    With golden bricks

    God always

    Hears you think!

    Written by Helen Olenjin

    Psalms 127:1-2, “Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain.”

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    God Is Invisible, You Are Not

    Daily writing prompt
    Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind.
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    Rest for awhile then begin again

    Last night, I felt really distressed about issues with my teenager, and it felt like God wanted to comfort me. And He truly did comfort me!

    What was He trying to teach me? 

    God is invisible and because we can’t see Him, it can be easy to “forget” His presence because we can’t see Him.

    But it felt God was encouraging me so I knew I was never invisible to Him.

    HIM seeing “me visibly” really encouraged me. 

    He always can “see me and you.”

    We just can’t “see” Him seeing us 😊.

    But He is always looking at us. 

    He is always looking at you. 

    Truly, truly.

    I love the fact that God is watching me type this message about Him. 

    All humans are visible to God.

    He always “sees us”.

    He won’t forget us. 

    Seeing is POWERFUL.

    Faith is HARD. 

     I CAN’T SEE God, but He sees me right now and always.

    This really encourages me as His invisibility doesn’t make Him less powerful, a less of a God, less able to help, less loving and less present.

    He IS a spirit.

    “For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” ( John 4:24)

    He is really really really really with me and knows my struggles with my child and gets it!

    God is truly visible. 

    But we are the ones who cannot see Him. Yet.

    Our spiritual eyes are closed. For now.

    But, if you think about it, you would surely freak out if you saw Him and you would die. 

    God doesn’t want you to die just yet!

    God said no man can see my face and live!

    “But you may not look directly at my face, for no one may see me and live.” (Exodus 33:20)

    So, yep, I get it….

    But it still does hurt praying to an invisible God. 

    I really want to see God’s face all the time.

     I want to see His changing expressions and the concerned look that says, “Helen, I really hear you and I know raising teenagers is hard but I will help you.”

    Jesus said, “Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew 28:20)

    “With you”, means right now!

    That’s a good 👍 fact to dwell on. 

    Funny thing…As I am just typing this, I hear a lady talking about God at the other table in this cafe. 

    I love ❤️ this because other people out there are thinking of Him too. 

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    Don’t Stop Writing….

    Daily writing prompt
    How would you improve your community?
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    Facebook can feel like a community.

    I would like to improve the social-media community, by removing the LIKE button. Permanently.

    There are brilliant posts that deserve a LIKE.

    I love to encourage others with my LIKE.

    I love when others encourage me with their LIKE.

    But sometimes, the LIKE can become your idol.

    Did you know that you can buy LIKES? My kids told me….I had no idea!

    As Christian writers, we don’t write to get likes.

    We write because it is the right thing to do.

    Our post remains as a small gorgeous diamond, hidden in the grass, watching for God to join it to a soul. Not to a LIKE.

    And not to the whole world!

    A seed (your post)and a soul ✨️ ❤️ will only bear fruit when God plants to begin with.

    Jesus must be at that root.

    The LIKE itself is not the Jesus root.

    It is merely someone liking your post.

    It could be a carnal LIKE, a tired LIKE, a jealous LIKE, a grumpy LIKE or the millionth and one LIKE, only because the first million LIKED first and you felt the need to follow the masses.

    I think the LIKES that get 5 gold stars, are the LIKES that don’t shine much on earth at all. But will in heaven.

    I will make a confession….many posts I liked on FB, I didn’t even want to LIKE. I was merely falling in the trap of social media and joining the crowds so I wouldn’t feel lonely and ignored.

    As Christian writers, don’t allow the absence of LIKES, to mess with your head.

    I sometimes get them, I sometimes don’t. Big deal! God isn’t fussed, why should I be?

    I have had over 8000 visits at helenolenjin.life and on my published writings posts, I don’t have masses of readers visiting every week. However, readers still do come, and these are the ones that count.

    Short videos are very popular today but who said writing needs to become extinct?

    We keep writing, because we know this is God’s desire for us.

    Please do not stop writing your posts for God.

    The absence of LIKES or the fact that your post is not in exciting video TikTok format, does not mean you are not doing God’s will.

    Think of when LIKES and TikTok never existed.

    How freeing!

    Write like these never existed!

    Then enjoy the freedom of Christ.

    This is how God’s work is meant to be.

    I like what someone said, “Go cold turkey on the LIKES!”

    Aye yes, and TikTok too!

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    Slow Motion…

    Daily writing prompt
    What’s something most people don’t understand?
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    Once upon a time, I felt severely stressed about something. At that moment, I really begged God to show me the answer.

    His response was so simple it was almost ridiculous!

    He simply told me to “slow down.”

    I took His advice seriously and it was life changing.

    The poem I wrote below is about slowing down. I wrote it for myself firstly so that I would never forget God’s message to me personally. Secondly, I hoped a few others would read this so it would slow them down too.

    Many people do not realise that slowing down is the answer to many things.

    This poem sounds like a Mrs Doctor Suess!

    Slow down your soul. You will be happy you did.

    A song is like a singing story

    A poem for God

    Is Jesus glory!

    The slow tree is God’s

    Planted with His seed

    The seeds say

    Unfollow the Web

    Follow God instead!

    The fast tree

    Is the world’s

    Busy and webby

    The erratic seed

    Is rushed

    Withered and sweaty

    Slow

    Calm and

    Wise

    Are you?

    Or fast

    Tumultuous and

    Surprised?

    Suprise indicates rush

    In the slow

    You are not crushed

    In the fast

    You won’t last

    In the slow

    You will flow

    Stop and say no!

    No, no, no!

    I will not go

    My feet are slow

    Only here do I know

    In the pause

    Is wisdom

    In the rush is fuss

    When I stop

    I look

    I don’t get hit by a bus

    In the stop, I rest

    In the pause I nest

    The stop here is kind

    The stop here is free

    The stop makes me pray

    Jesus and me

    The stop makes me say

    I start a new way

    How rushed are you today?

    Stop and read my poem

    It won’t be long

    When you’re finished

    You will be strong!

    First pray now

    God help me

    Not to rush past

    Helenolenjn.life

    As I’m going too fast!

    Good!

    Now as a poet

    I have your full attention

    Forget the world now

    Let me just mention

    A minute = sixty seconds

    If you only have this

    Then make it slow

    For then you will grow

    And know, know, know!

    In the slow, you grow

    In an emergency

    Speak slowly still Ok?

    Drive carefully still

    Think slowly still

    React slowly still

    Going fast?

    I warn you

    Your pressure will last!

    If you are nervous

    Talk loooooooong and stretchy!

    Let your words last

    And don’t become tetchy

    Stop talking fast

    Don’t fumble and stumble

    And mix up your waffle

    For then you will crumble

    Rush

    Equals

    Really

    Under

    Some

    Harassment

    Since when did you see

    Jesus rushing in me?

    A cloud rushing by

    With a big fat sigh

    Is only fiction,

    High in the sky

    And may I mention

    The real cloud is slow,

    Fluffy, fat and with no friction

    See how it flows?

    Oh! You must listen!

    When you’re in a cafe

    Don’t feel the need to speak

    Be like the sheep

    Nibbling and meek

    In pastures green

    Happy and serene

    Then listens to others

    Who squeeze in more words

    Coupled with caffeine

    They never observe

    To slow down is strength

    To listen is joy

    To hear a friend’s story

    Will give God more glory!

    So speak if you must

    But slow down with words

    Just quietly observe

    Don’t follow the herd!

    Know this and pray

    But let me say

    Slow motion

    Leads to your promotion today!

    Not of your flesh

    But rather your dress

    Your spiritual dress

    Produces less stress

    Your soul going slow will help you grow

    The fruits of the spirit =

    Love, joy, peace and self-control

    Since when did these

    Put you in a hole?

    Since when did you stop the rush?

    And unfollow the busy stuff?

    Tell me I say

    Dear friend, you are going the crazy way!

    Your erratic fast seed

    Cannot say

    Jesus and me

    Stop!

    Pause

    Come with me

    To the heavenly slow tree

    Uproot your webby one

    For the precious holy Son

    Here you will meet the Lord

    And find

    His eternal sword!

    A holy place where God observes

    Like the verse that says

    God is there

    The sword of the spirit

    Produces light and salt

    You finally slow down

    Your weakness halts

    You build a new tree

    For all to see

    Not an earthly kind

    But one with Jesus in mind

    God’s tasks are slow

    Then His fruits are birthed

    Since when did you produce

    Supernatural turf?

    Your slow tree produces light and salt

    The slow is Christ’s action on a halt

    The slow is God’s way of saying

    Go from A to B

    Not the broad way

    Don’t you see?

    If you want to go slow

    Stop and say

    Jesus, you are my brand-new way!

    I go from A to B

    Now I clearly see

    My old tree was built with carnality

    This messy tree stops and starts

    It’s never birthed with a Jesus heart

    The rush with too much fuss

    Withers your soul, it’s only stuff!

    This haphazard line is way off course

    But the straight and narrow, is God endorsed

    It’s not messy like the World Wide Web

    It’s straight and singular and heaven-led!

    So if you want to rest your heart

    Build a slow tree, it’s time to start!

    Plant the seed from God’s Word

    Then you will see

    His tree is free!

    Your chains are gone

    Your leaves are green

    Your soul is renewed

    Slow and pristine

    Stop your rush!

    Jesus comes first

    He wants your heart

    And not your stuff

    Don’t waste your energy on the devil’s tree

    Save it for God’s

    And be set free!

    (Written by Helen Olenjin)

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    Take The Onus Off Yourself To Succeed

    Daily writing prompt
    How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?
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    I feel like a dry log without God. (failure)

    But a log and God, makes life successful.

    Why?

    God does the work and I see myself as a log still. (success!)

    My poem I wrote below, explains this better!

    Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6)

    God’s will.

    God’s work.

    God’s way.

    I choose God’s will.

    I choose God’s work.

    I choose God’s way, I say.

    If I choose

    My will

    My work

    My way

    Will I be OK?

    I most certainly would, argues the clay.

    I can see better today.

    Hey, hey, I say.

    You cannot succeed today.

    You are not OK.

    You are just a lump of clay.

    Let me help you, I say.

    I know your not OK! (stop pretending)

    I cannot stay! I’m only clay.

    I see so well today,

    You best be on your way!

    Hey, I say,

    You cannot be OK!

    For Jesus is the way.

    Go away busy people say.

    I don’t want you today.

    But will you have a better day?

    When you push God away?

    What do you say?

    Ok, I’m clay.

    It’s odd today.

    I see a perfect way.

    But still I run away.

    I see the dust.

    I see God’s help.

    I need to choose today.

    But be gone! The clay shouts…

    I’m fully set, OK!

    As jelly gone astray, I trust my own wrong way!

    I only bow to clay.

    I’m off the track I say.

    But this is my way!

    But stop I say, Ok?

    Your Creator speaks today.

    What do I hear Him say?

    Why do you run away?

    When Jesus is the way?

    Choose

    My will

    My work

    My way.

    Please do not go astray.

    Why not stop and say,

    Jesus is the way?

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    Pairing The Visible With The Invisible

    Daily writing prompt
    Share one of the best gifts you’ve ever received.
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    One of the best gifts I have received is a gift I can always give away to others.

    It’s a writing gift that God gave me for you.

    Feel free to read any of my poems at helenolenjin.life.

    This is my tenth poem!

    I love you all ❤️

    Supernatural is God 

    Earthly is you

    You unite both

    Together

    Then you see two.

    This joining together

    Creates the sweetest love

    With a celestial yearning

    For God’s home above!

    God lives in heaven

    This triune God

    Is always a three!

    Father, Son and Holy Spirit

    These three will set you free!

    Your earthly plan

    Has provisions

    Provisions

    That you can see

    But these

    Are limited

    And temporal

    And not always free!

    The things you buy

    Have a price tag

    They include your

    Wants and needs

    But these things

    Can make

    You feel sad,

    It’s God you

    Really need!

    Why do I

    Need Him?

    I hear you grumble today

    Who can meet my needs

    Right now

    With no delay?

    Let me

    Tell you

    I shout

    With care-free

    Joy today!

    God’s provisions

    Are supernatural

    You don’t need

    A bank today!

    God has

    No savings account

    He works with no delay!

    Our God uses

    No credit card

    He has first and final say!

    Don’t think

    That your Creator is not real

    If you push Him away

    It’s emptiness you will feel,

    Please stop and pray today!

    Your wants and needs

    Are never satisfied

    Instead replace them

    With God’s perfect heart.

    Then see His heavenly

    provisions

    Flow

    Then make

    A joyful start!

    The shelf you see

    That looks so bare

    Belongs to God alone!

    You are trying

    To keep empty

    Filled

    As you believe

    You are alone.

    Put the onus

    On God,

    He is your perfect provider

    He cares for his creation

    But Satan is a liar!

    Heaven is gloriously stocked with God’s supplies

    These are reserved for those in need

    They are unseen by earthly eyes

    They are precious spiritual seeds.

    What you can see, is visible

    And on human turf

    The most important

    Spiritual jewels

    Are invisible

    And not from

    This earth.

    Stop stressing

    That your home

    Is bare

    And your

    Supplies are

    Running low.

    If you open your

    Spiritual eyes

    You will see

    God’s currency unfold.

    Even when your supplies

    Are stocked again

    You will still have

    God’s heavenly gold

    The good news is

    You can’t spend it

    And exchange it

    To be sold.

    God gives you His gold

    A measured speck at a time

    It comes

    As the loveliest gift

    That is

    Holy and divine.

    These gifts may be

    Love

    Hope

    Faith

    Or joy

    But they are

    Always packaged right.

    They are perfect for your soul!

    They

    Shine with heaven’s light.

    As you use these

    Gifts joyfully

    You are

    Reminded that

    God is 100% right!

    You suddenly remember

    God’s promises to you,

    Your soul

    Is filled with delight!

    God hears you say,

    Goodbye wants and needs

    You all expire today

    I will kill the

    Devil’s lies,

    I won’t push You away!

    I’ll build goodness

    Inside my heart

    I have no lack today!

    When I pair the visible,

    With the invisible God

    Everything will be OK!

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    God Can Be Trusted 100%

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    What skills or lessons have you learned recently?
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    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.”