I was thinking in church Sunday that the message o…
June 14th, 2005 | by Jeremy |I was thinking in church Sunday that the message of Christianity is so simple — that we humans have a debt too great for any of us to pay and that God stepped in and paid that debt for us. So simple. I think that sometimes Christians try to add too much to that. We lose sight of this beautiful story and we lose sight of who God is. Look at creation! God created this vast universe and all the beautiful and harsh reaches of this planet. He made mankind in His image and therefore gave us a part of Himself — His creativity, His sense of adventure, His love, beauty, wonder, imagination. And instead some Christians would rather focus on telling others why they shouldn’t drink or have sex outside of marriage.
I also like CS Lewis because he thought it was a silly idea that God, the ultimate Creator and Creativity itself, who has always been and always will be, just had a creative burst for six days when He made this world and never made any other worlds, or “Natures”, that may or may not have fallen like ours. But if they did fall, He would persue them just as much as He has us because that’s who He is. It’s part of His character. And of course, that’s what Lewis’s “Chronicles of Narnia” series is about. And the movie is coming out this Christmas and I can’t wait!
“Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time–and it’s killing them. But the truth is precisely the opposite. The secret longing of your heart, whether it’s to build a boat and sail it, to write a symphony and play it, to plant a field and care for it–those are the things you were made to do. That’s what you’re here for. Explore, build, conquer–you don’t have to tell a boy to do those things for the simple reason that it is his purpose. But it’s going to take risk, and danger, and there’s the catch. Are we willing to live with the level of risk God invites us to?” — John Eldredge, Wild at Heart