Play with a magnet sometime. Hover it over a pile of paperclips, and watch the paperclips dance along the tabletop. Get it too near, and those shiny pieces of metal will rise from their prone position and stand tall, reaching for the thing that draws them upward.
The force the magnet uses is invisible. Even if the magnet is unseen, the force is still there, lifting, pulling, and creating changes in the order of things.
A strong magnet can be placed under a desktop, and the force of the magnetism will cause a paperclip on the top of the desk to trace the path of the magnet, no matter where we twist and turn it. The paperclip will have no choice but to dance along.
We don’t have to see the magnet for this to happen. We can know it is there by the effect it has on the paperclip. It is obvious – by deduction – that there must be a magnet under the desk. The paperclip can dance no other way.
God is our magnet, and we are the paperclips. When he comes near, he changes the order of things. When he is the foundation underneath our feet, our invisible God moves, and we move with him. Where he goes, we go, even when the world around us doesn’t understand just why we dance the way we do.
John 12:32 tells the story of the magnet in Jesus’ own words:
“If I be lifted up from the Earth, I will draw all men unto me.”
It is by the power of Christ crucified on the cross that we are drawn unto the Father. When our invisible God calls his creation unto him, we cannot avoid feeling his power. We will dance according to his divine will.
Jesus’ unseen hand is a magnet that draws us unto him.
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