Predictability

My big problem with faith is that I want to know.

I want to know that I'm right about God - that when I do something that God is going to do something else in return. Really, I want God to be a giant computer. He would be a lot easier to pin down that way. He would be a lot easier to predict.

It sounds kind of funny, but doesn't it make more sense that God is unpredictable? Don't we want God to have a personality and choices, just like us? It's hard to have a relationship with a computer, no matter how long you stare at it, or how smart it seems to be. It's hard to have a relationship with God, too, but it gives me some comfort and intrigues me that God is personal, and not just a set of facts, or a set of rules.