Article May 15, 1989 Issue

The astounding presentness of revelation

Spiritual reality is not something to look forward to "sometime." We can embrace it now!

Stephen Gottschalk

Some time ago our daughter grew quite exasperated with us. She had been proposing a whole series of projects and plans. While we didn't want to give a flat "no" to most of them, we weren't about to say "yes" to her more far-fetched ideas either. So like many parents we settled for convenient answers like "maybe" or "someday." But it didn't take her long to catch on. "When you say 'maybe' or 'someday,'" she said after being put off for the ninth or tenth time, "what you really mean is 'never.'"

It's not difficult to understand how she felt. Especially when we see how often we accept "maybe" or "sometime" as answers to our desire to apprehend God's reality and the presence of His kingdom more fully.

We may well detect and reject the overt materialism that argues blatantly against spiritual light and meaning. But what about this argument that we're more or less stuck living out a conventional "business as usual" life, with the expectation that maybe, someday, we'll begin to apprehend spiritual reality in its fullness?

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