The following thoughts from a recent comment made me hesitate…and become quiet. Somehow they put all this cultural, economic, and political turmoil in perspective.
Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives…But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. So then, dear friends, since you are looking forward to this, make every effort to be found spotless, blameless and at peace with him. 2 Peter 3
How would we live if we saw our lives as a stage before we broke free as a butterfly…and death as a door to what we were really made for…something we understood and craved our entire existence?
I think we would look more like the early church.
Do these thoughts center you as well?
It does. Today is the staging area, the training grounds, the preparation for new creation. As we watch creation melt culturally, economically, politically we remember the transience of the world unredeemed, and the stability of the things of the Spirit.
“Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
Nick,
Thanks for your thoughts. I like the staging area concept and appreciate sharing the journey.
Oh…and your response to Loy20 made me smile even if it left my brain a bit twisted.
Ed
Ed.