old myspace post # 1

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

the way I make sense of the world In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and He said, "It is good". It was the way it was intended to be. God was intentional in His creation. there must be a created order to everything. It makes sense, I feel the effects of it everyday. There is this idea of God being distant and a non-factor in this world. I personally don't think this is true, but let's indulge it for a second. If there is truly a created order and God is distant, there still remains a created order. So if there is this order, then we have a choice. You have cried out to God, but have you ever been complicit in the answering of your prayer. You pray for health and wellness, but you eat fast food at 10pm and give yourself 5 hours for sleep. It will catch up to you and that is God's fault? See it doesn't make sense to blame God, not if the scriptures are true. Notice, if this is true, that God has a created order for the world that was established when the world was formed, then the old and new testaments of the bible can be seen as literature and history of God pointing His people toward this order. If this is true, then Jesus' life and commands have nothing to do with religious rules and mandates, but everything to do with pointing the way towards a true/new reality, the reality of the way things were created to be. Maybe that is the life Jesus talked about. It is a life of action, movement, love, intellect, foolishness. We have lost the art of moderation. We move through life to the rhythms of the market. We sacrifice greater good for profit. We separate life into "spiritual" and "non-spiritual" never realizing the collision of these two worlds around us. "When we gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain." It's not God's fault. He believes in us. He trusted us to shape human history and the world we lived/live in. "I believe there's more than wishful thinking, standing outside your door. I believe in one day we wake to find we are more than setting suns."