I don't remember what the focus of the sermon was about exactly, but somewhere along the way, the Pastor offered and analogy. "Imagine you have a shoebox. Imagine that this shoebox is completely empty. There is absolutely nothing in it. Knowing that this shoebox is empty, you close it up and put it in the top of your bedroom closet. There you leave it for a week, a month, a year, ten years, fifty years, or even a million years if you could live long enough. The amount of time is irrelevant here. Imagine that after waiting, that you retrieve this shoebox from the top of your closet. When you open it, there is something simple like a single flower in it. What would you believe? Must someone have put it there, or did it spontaneously combust there from nothing?"
My college-educated brain immediately thought "It's not that simple." Ironically, today when I ask secular minded people about the 'big bang' creating everything from nothing, the first response is almost always "It's complicated." Almost exactly like my "It's not that simple" response. What I learned over the years however, is that it really is that simple.
