'Consider the lillies of the field' Matt 6:29
- nsleese
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min read
"Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these."
There is a very interesting observation that Justin Brierley makes in his book Unbelievable. The second law of thermodynamics states that when left to their own devises all closed systems move towards increasing `entropy` and yet in the case of life the arrow moves in the opposite direction. Towards order and complexity. To me its analogous to Jesus calming the storm on the lake. The hand of God brings order and beauty out of chaos.Invariably true beauty is good and joy the hallmark of evil is turmoil,confusion and darkness.Its polar opposite.I can see no reason why there should be order and delight except as an expression of divine intervention in what is otherwise a natural state of mayhem. First the mathematical probability of such 'fine tuning' by chance is so small as to be ridiculous. Oh it just is ……is a feeble answer the gift of wisdom has made our world explicable and wisdom demands that there be a mind behind it. Secondly the metaphysical links our souls to another sphere, a higher order of being for which there is no natural justification.
The lilies of the field are why I chose Christianity. I'm convinced that beauty, joy, love, wisdom are all the unmistakable fingerprints of a God of love. There is nothing opaque about the four gospels they point unwaveringly to agape and the pool of water they represent is totally clear, fresh and at its bottom a transparent God of love who has set 'eternity in the human heart'.Ecclesiastics
Life is clearly not a group of monkeys with a sheet of paper trying to write Hamlet the history of humanity and our lives are far more as Gk Chesterton wrote : 'I had always felt life first as a story and if there is a story there is a storyteller.'
Yes, indeed. The argument that something can come out of nothing is absurd. Even the concept of nothingness point to a something. God‘s love and grace is what allows us to flourish even though we are just a speck in His vast creation. Who are we, that the Creator of all, would care to know our name. Just as all of God’s creation is beautiful and valuable; we too are beautiful and valuable. So valuable in fact that He send His only begotten son, that with the purchase of our sin, we may have everlasting life. Hosanna to the Highest!
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