Take that, Apple.

There’s this term in psychology known as the hindsight bias. Basically it means that a person tends to oversimplify something after it has occurred, for instance, looking at a test and saying I knew that answer, how could I be so stupid in putting the wrong answer?! Make sense? Good.

Reading Luke 1 made me think of this predicament God seems to have put us in. We are constantly striving to live up to His word and His goal for our lives, but how do we know what path to choose? Wouldn’t it be significantly easier if we all had our own personal Gabriels to come down every once in a while and say, “Hey kiddo—you’re on the right track!” or “Woah, why on Earth did you do that dude?!”.

Plus, it’s easy to shake our heads at Zechariah’s doubt-filled response to Gabriel’s revelation to him. But really, would we recognize a divine intervention, so-to-speak, if it appeared to us?

I started writing this entry not really knowing where it would end up. I just knew I needed to ask an important question about knowing God’s will for us. But after complaining about all this to myself for a couple of minutes, I came to the realization that God gave us an INCREDIBLE divine intervention. He spelled out for us what we are to do with our lives, even without sending each of us our own Pocket Angel. He sent his SON, his own flesh, to teach us how to live our lives. Like John 1 says, “the Word became flesh.” How much easier would chemistry be for me if my textbook became a living being who not only taught me the teachings but lived life through them?

Jesus, in a sense, is our own individual angel. We can call on him whenever we open up our Bible, sing a worship song, or pray, and he will be there with the answers to our questions and even teach us lessons we didn’t realize we needed to be taught. That, my friend, is much, MUCH greater than anything our technology could ever come up with.