Yesterday, I got to participate in sending people out onto the UBC campus to invite people to encounter God. A university campus like that can feel intimidating, like God doesn’t belong there.

On The Chosen, we hear again and again: “Blessed are you Lord, our God, King of the Universe…” It’s a really helpful perspective from which to begin praying. God is the King. “He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers.” – Isaiah 40:22.

Humanity’s natural state is to be aligned under God our creator. But we’ve chosen to follow the devil, and he’s got his demons working really hard at stealing us away. We know things will eventually fall back into their natural position. “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God’” – Romans 14:11.

Meanwhile, we tend to believe his lies. As he pulls the world away from God, it becomes a darker place. People born into that reality think it’s normal, because it’s all they’ve experienced. Even as Christians, we can think our dark world is what’s normal, and we’re the ones working hard to change it.

Back to UBC. When we believe that the people on this planet are created by God, to be with God, it changes our perspective. They may try to sound completely uninterested, but we know that they’re heart longs to encounter God. They’ve been hurt, they may not get over it, but at a deep level that’s all they want. And we get to share with them that it’s possible.

By the way, is that a cross in the original UBC campus plan from 1925?

More on being with God as the default position for humanity: It was Very Good