Unbelievable

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

-William Blake, 1794

At small group the other week, we talked about the story of Jonah, and how it is so unbelievable, it's believable. The aspects are so "out there", it must be true. You can't make this stuff up.

It's like the questions William Blake poses in his euphonic poem, The Tyger. He is asking, pondering, wondering if it is possible that we are made by God. The possibility of an eternal being with all power, knowledge, control, one who created heaven and earth would create us. How does that make sense, especially  given that we all have free will, which is how God intended it? This leaves the choice to follow Him or not.
Of course that doesn't make sense! We cannot possibly fully understand God.
It's so unbelievable, it must be true.

I believe.
Because it is love. It is true because of the love shown to us, given to us, in Christ.
Unbelievable.
Yet, so irresistibly believable.