27.1.15 | On My Mind

"I grow increasingly bewildered at the thought that my Heavenly Father took as much care in creating one such as myself, who has yet to accomplish anything of recorded significance, as He did in creating the likes of Moses and Saul of Tarsus, Luther, and Lewis. He does not love me any less or any more, and had none of the greatest minds or characters in our history ever walked the earth, His sacrifice would have been the same. Furthermore, were I to spend the rest of my life in complete disregard for His Word and what He has made plain to me through the likes of such persons, His pursuit of me would literally never cease until my final breath.

I believe that this is love. A blatant, and conscious disinterest in the merit of the object - and an irreversible decision to pursue with said acceptance at any cost. And yet this does not allow for apathy with regards to the sin, but rather an understanding that as much as boys will be boys, sinners will sin. The sin must be purged, of this there is no doubt, but such a purge is absolutely impossible without the use of the eternal antidote of sin: love. And this love cannot originate from us, but only from the Father of Lights.

'He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17)'

For when a loving father endeavors to teach his child to walk, does he react with anger when the child falls? And even when that child has grown, and learned to walk, were he to fall again would that father not immediately rush to the child's aid? Then why is it that we, who know how to give good gifts to our children, are so concerned with looking at our Heavenly Father through a completely different paradigm? It is true that if the child has grown to become a young man, and were again to fall, the father might leave him to deal with the pain, and rise again on his own. But is this not also motivated by love?

When we seek to understand God, we must remember above all else that although He is incompatible with sin, He does not remain puffed up and glued to His throne with His finger pointed at everyone save the Peters and Billy Grahams. On the contrary, we see that He left His throne, and lived among us, and battled fiercely with all of the same temptations as us. It is because of this that He can judge. The time for judgment will surely come, and we will not be ignorant of its arrival. But until then, He stands over our fallen bodies, beaming with joy, wiping our tears, and rejoicing over us with a comforting song, with not his finger pointed in disgust, but His hand outstretched in love. Whether we take it (and this applies to all of our vices, at all stages of our walk with Him), that of course is our own choice."

Theodore Wilson III

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