How many times have you heard that one before? It begins the Bible in Genesis and also the book of John, it has begun countless monologues, stories, plays, songs, and many other forms of literature. Why is it so important and why does it continually reappear in the literature with which we are familiar? Could it be because that's the way things are supposed to be? Like they were, in the beginning?
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.... And God said.... And it was so.... And God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:1, 9-10). When God created the world, He created things good; the world was at equilibrium and shalom existed, in the beginning. Have you ever seen August Rush? Remember how everything had its own unique sound, but everything worked in harmony and time with what surrounded it? This is what the world was like, in the beginning. Everything with its own uniqueness; everything in perfect harmony, in perfect rhythm; everything existing working together to produce a beautiful sound to bring God glory.
Then man sinned.
Immediately a chord was struck that brought dissonance and a beat was struck that offset the entire song. One wrong note, one wrong beat and the masterpiece was ruined. But it doesn't end there, now man's noise continues to produce a disharmonious, irregular sound with the rest of the world. Shalom was ruined.
But luckily for man, God could fix the dissonance that man had created. He could create perfect harmony. To do this, He sent His Son to die a painful, humiliating death - we all know how that story goes. By putting our faith in God and striving to live a Christlike life, we are harmonizing to the melody of God's love and following His rhythm.
"The point of rhythm is to follow it in time, to listen to the beating in your mind. Remember if you seek then you shall find...." - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Seventeen Ain't So Sweet
I dont necessarily think it a bad thing that man sinned in the first place. Obviously I'm not advocating the act of sinning, but I dont think it could have worked any other way. When you think about the "perfect world", you think about the Garden of Eden. If man had never sinned in the first place, we would probably all live there, or somewhere similar (I'm not sure about that, I'm not a bible scholar), and everyone would be happy, and everything would be great and god would be glorified and all that stuff would just work out. But, knowing that you know now, would you want to live like that? Thats like living blind.
ReplyDelete"Blame it on the corporate skyscrapers in the clouds, but if wasn't for you, we wouldn't have all these multiple crowds." -I Set My Friends On Fire, Things That Rhyme With Orange
p.s. You posted that at 12:34
thats awesome
I don't necessarily think that it would have been living blindly because we would be doing what we were created for - glorifying God. Either way, that's the result we get at, we just chose to get there the messy way.
ReplyDeleteand I didn't even realize it was 12:34. I guess I'm just skilled like that....
That would be living blindly. It would be living purposefully, but it would still be blindly.
ReplyDeletewell, I believe that we've already discussed this and reached our conclusion
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