Monday, July 07, 2008
No Worries
For example, in telling us not to worry about the future, He observed that each day brings its own troubles.Mark points out three "absolutes" that will allow us to avoid the worry and embrace the blessing:
- First: Jesus reminds us that all believers in Jesus Christ have one destination.
- Jesus also gives us one direction.
- He also gives one deity.
Let me get all science nerd on you for a minute. The much vaunted "Relativity" is really just an exercise in perspective. Simply put, it says that the equations that describe a thing look very different when you look at that thing from a different perspective. Thus, Einstein removed his perspective from purely spatial to space-time and things that were previously mysteries became readily apparent.
Consider a map. When you are on a street all you can see are your immediate surroundings, often making it difficult to see your destination, but a map gives you a perspective that makes your destination both apparent and easy to find.
In this sermon Mark reminds us that the heavenly perspective on our lives is quite different than our own. What may look insurmountable here on street level is often barely visible when the destination is apparent.
But it is so hard to hold onto that different perspective, we tend to want to go with what is in our face. Worse, often, we are truly incapable of taking that perspective. In the theory of relativity, for example, we can imagine what that space-time perspective is, but we can never actually take it, we are physically limited from it. Thus we must trust our mathematical tools, or the scientist, to give us insight into that perspective.
And that word "trust" is the bottom line. We must trust in God, for only God can have a truly heavenly perspective. But trust is so hard when the evidence in my face can be so contrary and when the heavenly perspective says that my current difficulties are necessary.
And that is where Mark's third absolute becomes so extraordinarily important. In this end, we may glimpse briefly that heavenly perspective, but there is only ONE god that we trust, and He is reliable - even unto death.
Think about it, in that there is immense rest and comfort.
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