Hello
Friends!
I am
super excited to start this new project series where I can very spontaneously
and compulsively share things that get my mind cells all worked up. Unlike my
other blogs, this will hopefully just be a place where I can share my awe and
wonder with you all without the pressure of formalizing thoughts or spelling.
The hope for this series is for it to be a place where 1) I can spill and share
some of the crazies that happen in my brain and 2) for all of you to pick at my
brain... literally?
The
series is called "Go! Tell it on the Mountain" because that is
literally how I feel when I have these epiphanies. I just want to tell the
entire world because I am super excited and this stuff will (hopefully but not
literally) blow your brains out! I cannot promise it will be short,
but I can promise that I will be random and maybe tangential. ANYWAY! READY!
SET! GO! Entry #1...
Upraised
The worst
human condition... LONELINESS! OKAY! I know, let me explain
1) It is
not good for man to be alone- whether or not you are religious, community is
sooo sooo important and plays a ginormous role in shaping who you are.
2) It is
not only a scary thing to be physically alone (like last person on the earth
kind-of alone), emotionally alone (like being surrounded by many people but
still feeling alone), but also spiritually alone.
3) What
does it mean to be spiritually alone? The way that I am using this phrase here
is the idea of God letting human beings loose to do whatever they
please...
"Yet
for all this, his anger was not turned away, his hand is still upraised"--
Isaiah 5:25
I read
this verse and here was my line of thought.
A) <--
changing things up a bit....
A) Why
did God keep his hands upraised?
B) Is He
getting ready to strike again? That would be scary...
C) Phone
a friend... Google...
D) WOAH!
*insert image of a person who has had enough with all the crazy shenanigans of
this world (injustice, violence, destruction), putting his hands up and slowly
backing away...
E) The
worst of all human conditions is not just our sinful nature and our natural
compulsion to do what is destructive and evil, but when given the choice,
to choose to do what is destructive and evil. The worst
of all human conditions is when we are left to do what we each see fit and
claim authority and control over things we do not have. The worst of all human
conditions is one without a God who is Just; who is the Creator, and who is
Good. The worst of all human conditions is one without God...
So when
God upraised his hands and left Israel to their own ways, Israel led themselves
into their own end and destruction... This is beyond scary!
In a
world that pushes people to be "individuals" and
"independent", the understanding of being in community is lost. Community
with others is unnecessary and being in communion with God is annoying and
restricting. Being dependent is the ultimate sin and shame of our society
today...
But, it
is not good for mankind to be alone...
***Insert
Tangent*** Credits to RHET 160/167
Companion:
Com (With) + pan (Bread).... LITERALLY SOMEONE YOU BREAK BREAD WITH...
***Insert mind being blown***
Charlie
