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My youth group went to a Middle School tonight to do our program. On the bus, I thought I heard the leader say that two
accepted Christ. I was thinking if they did, you wouldn't know it by how everyone was acting. This is a sacred moment when
that happens.
But then I also thought that this happens every day. The Scriptures are loaded with such stories in the
NT. Is this really sacred? How can something so common be so sacred?
And yet, that is EXACTLY what makes it sacred.
God is sacred not in the miracles he performs, though they are sacred, but in the universe he keeps running everyday. That
we wake up and breathe everyday is the sacredness of God.
Consider for instance Moses. Here Israel has been without
a word from God for 400 years. They are enslaved. They know not where he is. They've heard the stories of Isaac's miraculous
birth and of Abraham nearly sacrificing him. They know of the flood and the tower of Babel and of creation. But were these
stories really true or were they just stories?
And what of Moses on the mountain after he flees. The bush appears in
flames and before any other wonders happen God calls him. Moses asks who has sent him. Think of all the ways God could have
said he was.
I AM.....
The one who flooded the Earth...
The creator of the Cosmos....
The one
who allowed Abraham to father a child...
The one who demanded Isaac on an altar....
The one who destroyed Sodom
and Gommorah.....
The one who confused the languages....
All of those would be true but what does God point
to? Oh he points to the patriarchs but hear his answer.
I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Great events
happened with these men in their lifetimes. God doesn't point to those but he points to the everyday experiences. What makes
God so amazing is not what he does on days of miracles and such but in the common every day he is still the same as he is
on the days of the miracles.
Consider what God says is sacred also. A day of the week. Surely during 400 years in captivities
many Saturdays had gone by and many more would come but a simple day is sacred. Something that happens commonplace.
Life.
We can look all around us and see life. Life though is sacred because God has made it so. It is God's work in this world.
God is not so much shone through the rare extraordinary but through the everyday experience of the ordinary.
And Song
of Solomon. The sacredness of sexuality. Yet sex is very common really and it is what every couple desires on their honeymoon.
God has blessed things so that the common has a unique wonder.
I thought about this getting ready to take a shower.
My cat was in there. What makes those moments with him so special? He meowed but he always does. but it is sacred because
it is so familiar and so wondrous still. I don't pet my cat in hopes of feeling something different but in the hopes of feeling
the same. This is another wonder of God in that we can always go to him and he is awesome because he is always the same.
In
fact, most of the things in life we enjoy are commonplace. A good laugh is very common. The smile on a baby is common. A good
meal is common. A kiss with a beautiful girl is common. (Well.....Not for all of us yet.....)
We don't go for the different
experience but for the same. Something reliable that doesn't change. Something we can trust and only God who is soveriegn,
holy, omniscient, and immutable can supply.
Yet this is also the dark side of atheism for it takes the everyday wonder
and renders it trash. The amazing complex structure of DNA which is a wonder so much so that Francis Crick says life is "Almost
a miracle." is viewed as an accident. Sexuality is viewed as something one can do whenever one feels. Life is viewed as an
accident. Even pleasant feelings are reduced to brain chemicals.
Yet when the atheist has a baby and brings him to
you to show his smile and you said, "Big deal. You can see a smiling baby anywhere." you can guarantee they would take offense.
They know you are right though but their child is sacred. Yet they can do this but then look at the miracle around them and
say it is accident and trash.
Yet atheism falls at the altar of chaos. When one takes wonder at life one can either
thank a creator or blind chaos. Yet who worships blind chaos? If the atheist does, does he want the same blind chaos ruling
his child or does he want order? The creationist worships the order of the creator. The atheist the blind chaos.
Today,
is the common sacred or is the sacred treated as common and made profane?
Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Questions?
(Insults were due yesterday)
Nick
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