Something is wrong. Wrong with the world and wrong with the world's people. This is a broken and dying world. And you know what? It's our fault. No . . . we are not causing global warming. I mean way back when Eve took the Serpent's lie--hook line and sinker. That moment. That is when everything went wrong. Man--who is the image of the very Creator of the universe--became broken. Our image of God cracked, and now it is broken beyond repair. "Wait, wait," you might say, "What about . . . you know, Jesus?" Well Jesus reminded us that we are broken. This world is so broken that He knew it could never be fixed all the way. (Yes He is God but He lets us have free will) When we cracked we lost something vital and gained something vicious. We lost our agape love (that is the word for selfless love in greek) and gained selfishness. We turned from looking out for each other--no matter the cost to ourselves--to looking in at ourselves and away from others. We were shattered away from togetherness to the broken shards of selfishness. The "something" that is wrong with the world is not him or her but it is me and you. We all too often forget that vital fact. We need to stop blaming and shaming everyone. We need to start loving and giving--of ourselves--to everyone. So now what about Jesus? Well Jesus came to "seek and save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10) with his perfectness. He came down from all His glory and became a broken man. But instead of becoming another broken shard, He lived a perfect unbroken life. So now when God looks at our mess He can say "it is good" once again. How? Instead of your broken shards He sees the stained-glass picture that makes Jesus unbroken. He forgets it all and just loves you like no shattered person ever could fathom. He slowly mends our broken lives and deliberately makes them a selfless masterpiece. But since this whole world is broken He can never finish the job He started. (Remember free will? Yeah that stops Him) So He decided that after we can no longer inhale, He will bring us to an un broken place. He will bring us to His palace. He will bring us into endless joy. So for now when you feel short of breath or when you simply cannot love your enemies, remember that one day you will journey to an unbroken place. A Palace that you can finally call Home.
~TDH
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An explanation of why my blog has the name A Thought Observed can be found at the bottom of the page under the title "Why A Thought Observed?"
Heaven...THAT will be the best day of my life!
ReplyDeleteI just can't get over how amazing your posts are. I really needed this. Thank you so much.
ReplyDeleteLeandra: thank you. It is just something God has given me a passion for. I think it is amazing that God would use me. I hope you enjoy my future posts. (and spread the word to others who enjoy this stuff)
ReplyDeleteSO "free will" stops God? I actually disagree, God can do what ever he wants :) He made the world, he just knows that sense the beginning after "the fall" we are no longer naturally good. IS that what you mean? I bet we are saying the same thing I just misunderstood your wording :) But I wanted to ask any way. It is all very confusing... Thx for sharing tho :)
ReplyDeleteMary, you are right. God can do anything He wants to. What I mean is that free will is against God's un-measurable power. Nobody can truly understand why free will is the way it is. But God gave man free will and somehow God is still all-powerful. I believe God works through our messes (since God is bigger than them) to make--in the end--everything conform to His will. (no that is not limiting God's power but we can act on our own "will") It is not fully graspable but a interesting topic to think about.
DeleteBut our "own free will" is always gonna be to sin. Do you think that God "plans" our lives and knows everything before it happens and even "makes" everything happen? I guess I don't understand how God can be sovereign, but not "all the way"?
ReplyDeleteWell Psalm 139 says that God knows us and is in total control. But (I'm not quite sure where...) Christ also says at one point in His ministry how He "longes to take Israel under His wing like a mother hen," but they were "unwilling." So God is completely sovereign and man has complete free will. No one has made total since of it. And whole books have been dedicated to this topic. (don't quote me on that one...) Only God understands it. We just need to remember that God is in control.
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