Christianity, like some other great religions, conveys to its believers a confidence that though they belong to this universe and this earth and a particular country and home and maybe group of friends, they belong also to a greater world outside space and time. To Christianity such belonging goes with having faith that God not merely exists but knows each of us intimately and meaningfully. This is too great an idea for us fully to understand it. As I have argued earlier in this essay, any concept of God of which we are even capable as human beings is limited indeed. In the Christian tradition God is seen not only as a professional, as it were concerned with the making of worlds and universes outside us, but as a person, concerned with the making of us from within.
Creation is an ongoing inward as well as outward process - for the individual and for society too.
There does come to many believers occasionally a conviction, fleeting, evanescent perhaps but not to be doubted, that the light within is to be trusted. The outcome of obedience to that trust may not be what was expected. But it will, however unexpected, if accepted in faith, lead to a conclusion whose rightness may later become clear. The future of humanity, its rescue from contentment with little more than a happy animal existence, is dependent, I believe, upon its having a larger faith and a longer hope than secularism and doubt are capable of providing. Sanity and truth have depths as well as surfaces.