Jesus was born to make all things new.
The Christian story and my own experience say that we will in a world that is crumbling into decay. Our collective size and selfishness too late to turn back ourselves.
The Christian story and my own experience say that we will in a world that is crumbling into decay. Our collective size and selfishness too late to turn back ourselves.
I can’t think of a space I do not see this trend.
And yet God promises that with His presence and Kingdom comes new life.
Aaron and I watched a beautiful but very dark TV show a few years back called Hannibal. From my perspective the primary theme in Hannibal’s story was anger with God about a trauma he experienced. He figured if he could make the devastation from that event horrific enough he could manipulate God to undue it, reverse time, “unbreak the tea cup”. He felt this was the ultimate gift.
I think we believe that too. We want God to unmake our trauma and sin. Undo racism and sexism and make it so they never were.
It’s within His power. Why doesn’t He do it?!
God says because He needs the raw materials of our despair, rage, suffering, grief and selfishness to build something new and beautiful. They are essential to it and far better than we ever could’ve imagined.
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