So yesterday was an amazing day for me. Classes were fine but then i had two meeting which were just wonderful.
First i meet with Paul, he is our intervarsity staff worker on campus and likes to meet with the incoming freshman. So we had a bit of a hard time getting together, but we did get together and had enlightening theological conversation. It was wonderful. One thing he said/drew out really caught my attention. He laid out a few steps to what this group believes.
1. God created the world and is the king
2. we as humans decided we wanted to be king (sin)
3. because of this, we die
4. Jesus came
5. he died and rose again, bringing the glory back to God as king
we were discussing how ppl can object to love and sharing things with everyone and it always came back to that second thing. We don't want to give up the power of choice. We want to be king of at least our lives. We don't want to give up that power of choice. We like to be selfish and greedy. . . we like to be comfortable. We don't want to lose that comfort to help the homeless, or feed the hungry, or even fight for peace. We'd rather do nothing.
So does this make sense to anyone else or an i nuts?
God Bless,
~your sister in Christ~Erin
3 comments:
hi! it makes perfect sense to me. i mean, why should we, a people of an unjust and selfish society try and give up our rightly earned power, right? your not nuts...our society is.
always,
><>jenny<><
Well said.
both of you.
:o) holly
yet another point from another fabulous conversation with a good friend, ppl don't always intentionally make the choice to be selfish. As i look back on thie post i see it as pretty harsh and judgemental to people with different mindsets than me. All people have problems, maybe in different degrees but we all have pressures and things which make our lives difficult. These may be social, economic, or physical problem whatever it is doesn't matter. We tend to put them in different degrees, me for one i place life threatening problems at the top of my concern list. People who have to deal with hunger, malnutrition, epidemics like AIDS, and really just problems of being poor and/or oppressed. But that is my opinion of what is most important. . . i can't judge someone else by saying that their priorities should be the same as mine, that they should value helping the poor as i do. . . i can only show them what i do and tell them why i feel called to serve them, the joy it brings me and the joy i feel by becoming closer to God serving his children. Only they can make their own decisions, so for them to be sincere choices which will last after i leave their lives they need to make the choice for themselves. Still comes back to choice. . . who do we want to be king, him or us? and if he is King what are we suppose to be?
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