Children under two are walking and running around. Yet, even small things can upset them. They cry when they bump into a table or fall unexpectedly or drop a toy where they can’t pick it up. They look to a source of comfort, a parent, and they run to comfort. A parent is a giant and can handle all the giant things in a child’s life from a child’s perspective.

It is sad when we are the giant and have to handle all giant things ourselves. We really aren’t giants. We accept that some people are giants in their fields of expertise like a CPA or a medical doctor. They are giants limited to the range of human abilities. There is much more going on that is beyond humanity. It is easy to see how much we’ve progressed since neanderthal man, but impossible to imagine what lies ahead in the whole of creation.

Somehow, man innately understands he is a spiritual creature, more than flesh, feelings, and thought. Every generation of man has sought to understand spiritual truth, patterns, and God. There is far more to life than physical creation. We are children still in the face of giants. There is evidence and proof of God, but it is easier to have faith in science than faith in God even though both have facts, evidence, and require faith.

It is curious that people can trust down to their level and below and not trust up, that there is a creator who structured all life. We will easily go to a CPA about finances, who may or may not be trustworthy, but not to the creator who has made Himself visible and available. It must have to do with giving up control to someone or something else. A child has to accept a parent’s authority to get a parent’s comfort and provision. I met an atheist who wasn’t really concerned about whether or not there was a God. He just wanted to be a giant in his own world instead of a child in another’s. I prefer Jesus who has proven Himself and accept an ongoing childhood.