Blind Trusting

Some of us trust God as if he were one of our parents, some of us trust the Law as it were one of our parents. Why do we trust God or the Law if we don’t know they exist or if they’re good and right? I think mainly it is because we constantly need to know that what we do is right and that we have purpose in life. Even though we trust God in what seems to be blindly, I also think we are born with a certain inner consciousness and maybe even a common sense of what is right or wrong. This “consciousness” could also be a hereditary evolutionary DNA adaptation that our species automatically creates does the ant’s DNA, the monarch butterfly’s DNA and the whale’s DNA. The whole group learns something and passes it on to the next generation through a change in DNA. The issues may not be just the survival of the fittest or how to get a great meal but more complicated things such as how to make the group function more harmoniously through a higher love.
Maybe animals and nature just follow the Law automatically while we’re stuck with a “higher” intelligence and choice and “free will” that makes us doubt and discuss and fight about everything. The children of Israel weren’t the exception. They needed assurance that God did exist. “And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.” –Exo.16 Line.2 They needed a messenger who would provide assurance and who would practice God’s law every second of his life. They needed Moses to be their life judge. “And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.” -Exo.17 Line.11 The time had come when the children of Israel were asking for God to tell them how to live their lives. It is interesting to note that highly spiritual people like St. Francis of Assisi
were highly connected to animals and communicated with them…maybe animals are a lot wiser and spiritual than we think.

Moses knew he had to be the people’s messenger, he had to provide that knowledge. “And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God:” -Exo.18 Line.15 We now have judges who tell us who is wrong and who is right, in that moment the judge was Moses, he was who had to consult God’s word and apply it to the people. The God he trusted was the ultimate word for a person’s inquiry. Moses was the judge of the children of Israel and his law was God’s word: the ten commandments and “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” The children of Israel were not blindly trusting God but understanding his word through Moses.
Maybe the whole idea of leaving the garden of Eden was losing that direct knowledge and now we have the long, winding path to get “home” again and need interpreters, signs, symbols, messages, saints, stories and holy books to try and get back on track.