Step three: Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to God as we understood him.

In seminary I was preparing to take the final exam for my course in Theology 101. In any survey course there is always far more to study than is possible to cover. I tried to study the entire field of theological thought. I reviewed all my class notes. I even resorted to prayer. But neither the study nor the prayer prepared me for the only question on that final exam. The question went something like this:

A man was having trouble in his life and wanted strength to face it. But he found it impossible to pray to a God whom he could not see, so he asked a friend what to do. The friend advised him that if he could not envision an all powerful though invisible God, he should picture in his mind the m…