Week 9—Tuesday Romans 8:28-30
Week 9—TUESDAY
“THE DEMANDS OF HUMAN NATURE
DROVE ME BACK TO THE CHRISTIAN POSITION”
We are looking at the fact that the Christian way is the Way, and that Way is written in the Scriptures and is supremely and finally shown in Jesus Christ who is the Way. We saw also that the Way is written in us and in the necessities of human living. I have quoted in another book the statement of Dr. Boss, the head of the International Psychoanalytical Association of Europe, when I asked him how he was able to put his psychiatry and his Christianity together, and his reply: “In the beginning I had difficulty, for I was a Freudian. But the demands of human nature drove me back to the Christian position.” I sat up and took notice, for I saw that this was probably the most important statement coming out of psychiatry in this generation. I asked him to repeat it, and he did with emphasis. This is of vast importance, for suppose human nature were demanding one thing for its fulfillment, and Christianity were offering another thing; then we as Christians would be in trouble, deep trouble, life trouble. But suppose what human nature is demanding for its fulfillment and what Christianity is offering for that fulfillment are the same, then they fit as hand and glove, then that makes Christianity inevitable. For what Christ commands, human nature demands. His command and our demand are one. So if you work from Revelation down and from the facts up, you come out at the feet of Jesus Christ. “He is the heir of all things”—everything must come out at his feet, or perish.
A biologist heard this exposition for the first time and said excitedly, “This biological predestination to Christianity is the most exciting thing I ever heard.” It is exciting—so exciting that I wonder why we don’t buttonhole everybody we meet and say, “Have you heard the news? You are predestined, biologically predestined, to be a Christian! Eventually, why not now?” If the universe had a newspaper to give universal news, it should put out an extra with the above statement as the banner headline!
O Jesus, my Lord, I know that “every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,” for you are Lord even where that Lordship is neglected or denied. “For my heart and my flesh cry out for you.” And we cannot stifle that cry forever. Amen.
AFFIRMATION FOR THE DAY: My biological predestination and my personal choices coincide—I am Christian forever and always.