It almost seems too easy to change history
today by overanalyzing and twisting perceptions. Your friend comes up to you with a pale face,
racing heart, and stammering words. “I
saw a ghost!” they shout. You begin the
process of dissecting the event. “Where
were you? What time was it? What
happened?” They walk you through the
event—with passion in their words. The
event obviously altered their perception and impacted them. Now comes your choice to believe or reject
their story.
Most people would be skeptical and want to
experience the ghostly encounter before diving off the cliff of sanity and
believing that ghosts exist. You decide
to visit this haunted house and find out for yourself if ghost wander the
hallways of the condemned house. Nothing
happens to you. You don’t brush
shoulders with the undead. You go on
believing that ghosts don’t exist. A
year later you do the same thing—same results.
Another year passes, and you’ve come to a point where you want to
believe because of the impact it had on your friend. This time, you actually see a hovering
spirit. You believe!
You rush to your friend and share your
experience with them. But they’ve had
time to question the original sighting and came to the conclusion that ghosts
don’t exist and the event was just an emotional response to a hallucination. “What!? No! You actually saw the same thing
and experienced it. Why are they
changing the past?
Belief does that to us sometimes. If we’re not careful, we can do the same
thing to our faith. God enters our
personal space and touches us. It changes us and we run around—on fire with
this encounter. Time passes, and the
inferno becomes a dwindling flame. But
don’t hurt yourself by nitpicking the event that sparked change in your life
and concluding that you somehow had control over God’s appearance. Don’t question it so much that you step back,
take a different aspect, change your perspective, step back into the role, and
convince yourself that something else took place. You can’t rewrite history in honesty.
