RRR_Quiet

It's very quiet right now. It's early. Remember that there was a time in your life when it was quiet. Remember that time? Remember that quiet.  Quiet is an interesting place because we live in a noisy world. One of my favorite movie scenes is in a movie that many Christians just can't bring themselves to watch because it has a lot of R rated content in it. But it's called midnight in the garden of good and evil. It was a Clint Eastwood movie and John Cusack is in it and he plays a New York reporter who brings a recording of the noise of New York City with him. And he plays it so he can sleep.  Imagine quiet. My bet is that you've never heard it much. One time we went camping in north Arkansas. With the youth group from the church, and it was up by a place called Albert Pike, I think it was; first of all, there was no noise in that forest. So when I recount that moment of remembering that quiet, I recount that as one of those times when miraculously, it was all so dark, because we're surrounded by so much ambient light in the United States of America, that many of us have never seen the darkened night sky. When your eyes get what's called dark acclimated, your pupils open up wide, and when you first see that Milky Way in a dark sky night, you gasp.  Because, you realize there is some power here that we simply cannot comprehend. And we make that statement, and what really makes me kind of giggle a little bit as a theologian, I mean, me, getting a doctorate in theology is kind of akin to a person with no arms and very little intelligence learning how to become a master French chef. It just should never have happened.  But somehow we drove through all of the bureaucratic barriers that the seminaries try to throw up so that people cannot actually attain what they need to in order to study theology. And so this recertification, is that Christ is so much more powerful than what we can apprehend, let alone comprehend. God is not a thinker like we think. His thought. His thoughts are not our thoughts. His ways are not our ways, and we read that in his word, the Bible, and we do not understand it.  We believe that it is all so well-defined, and so well defended that we've made it like a gigantic vault within which we've placed what we believe is the truth. And the fact of the matter is, he's always going to be immensely bigger than anything that we can believe that we portray. So recertify to your disciples that the Christ that they serve isn't even bound by the grave.  He is a resurrection power that no one can comprehend, but can only apprehend to love and ask forgiveness for our sins from and follow.

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