Ps 4:2 (ESV) O men,
how long shall my honor be turned into shame?
How long will you
love vain words and seek after lies?
NOTE: This is our
culture today, where the narrative (what we want to believe) is more important
than the facts. We have raised a self-generated dogma to the status of absolute
truth while at the same time denying the existence of absolute truth. We have
chosen to believe what we want to believe because we like it, not because it is
necessarily true (which it can't be anyway since we say there is no absolute
truth). We rebelled against God in the garden because we did not want his rules
nor him to rule over us. That rebellion continues today. And yet when disasters
happen--the consequences of a world where God does not rule--we scream at God
and say that this proves that a loving, all-powerful God can't exist. The
disasters and evil that we see should remind us that we chose a world without
God, and God in his mercy gave us what we wanted in the hope that we might see
the ugliness and futility of it all. Disaster, pain, injustice, evil, etc, are
megaphones that all scream the same thing--we rebelled and we need to repent.
If God stepped into our rebellious world and fixed every bad thing that ever
happened, I seriously doubt we would all worship him or believe in him. And so
he does the best thing that he can do, he gives us the consequences of our rebellion.
But he did step into our world as well, and showed us his great love for us
through many miracles, the most important being the resurrection. We deny it
all, because we don't want God's solution -- we like being gods.
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