day no. 15,367: privately preferred uncertainty

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. (Rom. 1:19-20).

"The problem of sinful man is not that he wants certainty. He already has it and he doesn’t like it. The problem is that he wants his own certainty, or, failing that, his own uncertainty. But at whatever cost, short of repentance, it must be his own." -- Douglas Wilson, European Brain Snakes

Certainty is inescapable. If we reject the certainty God provides, we don't merely settle for uncertainty. We look for another one. The problem is... there is no other certainty. Nothing else is stable since everything else is subject to being acted upon. If everything is mutable, then nothing is indissoluble. Since only God is impenetrable and immutable to the other forces, He alone is certain. So what begins as a quest for private certainty ends in a private devotion to the uncertainty best preferred.