Original post May 19, 2012 | Updated for 2025
🕰️ Then...
“Who I think I am is brought into focus by the interpretation of my perception (5 Senses), which results from my perspective of what exists. This perspective is informed by truth or lies…”
“Is your perspective of reality interpreted from your limited perception? Then you have reasons to be uncertain about anything you decide. Or do you rely on information from a perspective higher than your own—a perception not limited to the ‘here and now’?”
Back in 2012, I had just started an online course in Artificial Intelligence. One lesson stood out to me in particular. It was about uncertainty—what to do when you don’t know what to do. The course listed these five causes of uncertainty in AI decision-making:
- Sensor Limits: Can't see it all.
- Stochastic Environment: Too many variables.
- Adversaries: Enemies working against success.
- Laziness: Mental shortcuts and incomplete data.
- Ignorance: Not knowing—and not caring.
As I read that list, I couldn’t help but feel the weight of it. These weren’t just challenges for machines—they were a picture of what it’s like to live in a broken world, trying to make sense of life with limited vision, while navigating a battlefield of lies and spiritual warfare.
In the blog post back then I was asking, "what is the source of your information?"
💡 Now...
Today, more than a decade later, I’m still asking that question—but with a deeper understanding.
I now see that probabilistic reasoning—whether in AI or human life—is an attempt to navigate the fog of uncertainty by calculating rather than trusting. It operates within the bounds of limited perception, variable outcomes, and incomplete knowledge. But biblical faith invites us into something more.
🔁 From Probabilities to Providence
- Where probability says, “This might work,”
- Faith says, “God has already gone before me.” (Deut. 31:8)
- Where AI says, “Too many variables,”
- God says, “I know the end from the beginning” (Isaiah 46:10).
- Where the world says, “Follow your instincts,”
- God says, “Lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5–6).
🔍 What Is Biblical Faith?
Biblical faith is relational trust in the One who sees beyond your perception, knows your true identity, and directs your steps even when you don’t know what to do.
“For now we see through a glass, darkly… but then we shall see face to face.” — 1 Corinthians 13:12
"The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps. — Proverbs 16:9
Your identity is not formed by your interpretation of your five senses—it is revealed by your Creator. The truth of who you are is not something you guess at; it’s something you receive:
“To all who received Him… He gave the right [exousia – authority] to become children of God.” — John 1:12
🧭 Walking as a Fully Actualized Kingdom Saint
My goal is to overcome all the things that hinder me from becoming the man God created me to be, I now know:
- I AM who God says I am — redeemed, adopted, filled, and purposed.
- So I'll BE who He created me to be — holy, blameless, and fruitful in Christ.
- And from that place, I can DO the works prepared for me — empowered by the Spirit, not driven by fear or uncertainty.
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.” — Ephesians 2:10
I am reminded often of what Paul said about himself in Philippians...
📖 Philippians 3:12–16 (ESV)
12. “Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16. Only let us hold true to what we have attained.”
🔚 Final Word
If AI systems struggle with “what to do when they don’t know what to do,” how much more should we humbly acknowledge our dependence on the One who created us?
“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” — John 10:27
When you don’t know what to do, the question isn’t What’s most likely to work? It’s Who do I trust to lead me through this?
Not a probability. A Person.
Not a calculated guess. A guiding Shepherd.
Not an AI. But the I AM.
