Monday, October 4, 2021
This is Shore
Real and Unperverted
God’s Creation
Jeremiah 2:27
They say to a tree, ‘You are my father’, and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, ‘Come and save us!’
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Words of Grace For Today
Trees as fathers, and stones as mothers. That surely is a mixed up version of perverting reality that I have not run into … often.
There are plenty of other versions of perverting reality that I hear of, read of, and encounter in daily life all too often. It starts with some terrible perversion of reality driven by hubris, thinking oneself is so much more than one really is. After a person allows that to happen, there is no telling what will come next. When one thinks one is no longer a creature of God, no longer anything less than a godlet, the mess one creates is pure … pure evil.
That’s how we get a US president like Trump.
That’s how we get so many Covidiots that secure the continuation of the pandemic in stronger and more destructive ‘waves’.
That’s how we get so much fake news, so much that so many people can believe vaccines are dangerous, that climate change is not real, or that truth is only subjective and can be anything we want it to be.
There is nothing more destructive to all life, in us, around us, and through-out the universe.
Even those of us who have resisted the fake news perversion and return of chaos into our lives are caught up by this evil. There is simply no escape.
When we allow this to consume us, then …
Then … we are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves or anyone else.
Faith.
Faith is all we have left.
Faith is what gives us hope.
Hope gives us, with no cause at all other than faith, to cry to God for help.
We cry and pray that God will save us.
As God promises in many and various ways, that by Grace salvation is ours, so God forgives us our sin, claims us as God’s own children, and sends us out to be the people who carry God’s Grace to others.
From ‘Trees’ and ‘Stones’ and all kinds of perversions of reality we pray ‘God save us.’