Chris J Gregas

The Filter Chris J Gregas

A filter is simply something that keeps the good and bad separate, the offensive and the cherished apart. A filter is put into place to allow the good to flow through while catching invaluable and harmful things. The purpose of a filter is to separate two things. For instance, a spam filter is intended to keep you from receiving a stream of junk email. A circular polarizing filter for a camera lens makes sure only certain aspects of sunlight make it into your photo. And a water filter, of course, is for keeping unwanted impurities from making their way into your drinking glass. It is this filter idea that we want to tackle throughout this book. It is more than mere items that need to be filtered. That will make life a bit more convenient. But more than that, we need to see how God filters His will and His ways to fit into our story. It is quite an undertaking indeed. What God does not initiate; He can never appreciate. In other words, if God is in it or He has not spun it, then He isn't for it and He will not spin it into reality or bless it as it reaches actual people. God is the driver of all that is and will be. You will be fairly convinced of that at the end of this book.