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| why is it so hard to say "i don't know"
"i don't know" is the fuel that feeds the fire of discovery
what is the purpose of life?
how did we get here?
before we can answer anything... we must first, all admit that we know nothing...
it is at this junction that faith is required
cosmic accident? or Divine Design?
at every new answer... we must ask new questions...
but it seems like we live in a world
where all the answers are given before the questions are ever asked...
it's like we buy the product because of the pitch... not because we have need for it...
and it's how we end up with vegetable slicers discarded
in some forgotten back-corner of our bottom cupboard...
vegetable slicers... and endzone-wontheaward-easterchristmas-teleevangelist-argueaboutnothing-argueaboutanything-spirituality
G_d doesn't care that you thanked Him for the award and told Him to bless the audience if He wasn't involved in the process...
it's why Y'shua said that many
will stand before Him and say that they did great things in His name
and He will say "I never knew you"
some say it doesn't matter how you find G_d... just that you find Him...
that would be a great statement if it were true...
the problem is that a relationship built on a lie... is a lie itself
faith built on false beliefs is a lost cause...
"i don't know" is the groundwork that must take place in our hearts before the foundation of our spirituality can be laid...
it is within the formless void of "i don't know" that G_d speaks into existence the light of true revelation...
see... i think G_d hates our answers more than our questions...
i think the Designer intended for us to ask questions...
i think it is why He filled this amazing universe full of them and reasons to ask them...
to inspire us to dream and imagine...
to engage us
in a beautiful dance...
an invigorating conversation
called Life...
a true relationship thrives on experience shared...
knowledge of another
obtained not by route-memorization
but
by an exchange of thoughts and emotions...
secrets...
tears...
joys...
pleasures...
struggles...
but before you can participate in this exchange you must have a desire "to know"...
that desire is birthed by the revelation...
"i don't know"
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| there's something funny about inspiration...
it seems to come and go when it pleases...
search for it and it becomes more elusive...
wait for it and you may never find it...
but when it comes... it comes in rushing...
like a brisk september breeze ushering in the cool of fall
inspiration is like a drug... always leaving you wanting more
have you ever just listened to a song over and over and over...
it may drive others around you to their limits but something in that melody or lyric connected with you...
you got it...
the heartache...
the obsession...
the peace...
the romance...
whatever it was that the songwriter felt at that moment... you felt it too...
and the revelation, the inspiration, the connection leaves you with only one option... the repeat button
i think it's the same connection that i get when i see the tops of clouds from an airplane...
that simple change in perspective brings unbelievable inspiration...
it makes me want to rip the window out of that big metal cage and soar on the wind...
leaving in my wake swirls of cotton candy clouds...
at that moment i feel connected to an imagination so deep and personal it causes me to wonder if it all was created just for me...
i've had millions of these moments and i'm sure countless millions have had their own million moments...
but then i remember... there are those that don't...
they get caught in the foxholes and trenches of life...
never once emerging from the place they have burrowed in to experience the beauty of clouds from another angle...
all those clouds mean to them is another rainy day...
we're they never given wings?
or did they just fall off... another casualty of modern-spiritual-evolution...
maybe they got ripped off by someone who saw them as needless... or intimidating...
whatever the case my heart cries for those who never connect with our Designer...
and i am so grateful He still lets me in on His secrets...
i feel it is the greatest privilege in life... to be inspired
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| the amazing thing about our infinite Creator is that He chooses to have a relationship with us...
when the infinite interacts with the finite the mystical takes place, but the Creator in His infinite wisdom has given us clues to understand Him...
the greatest being His unchanging nature
the Designer has set up laws by which this universe operates...
and those laws like their Author are unchanging...
it is upon this understanding that the greatest minds in science have made their discoveries...
"why?" is what makes us human...
we were designed to question the laws of nature...
it is built into our dna...
religion starts when men define these laws in their own terms, then label them as devine...
throughout history "the church" has a record of doing everything in it's power to hold back idea's that redefine our universe... when it should be the first to embrace redefinition...
the physical world is the medium with which G_d tells His story...
it is with the fabric of time that He weaves our eternal garments...
all of Creation was designed to pull us into Him...
relationship is discovery...
without discovery relationship perishes...
death is the absence of relationship...
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| why do we hide behind arguments we can never prove?
why is it so hard to just say "i don't know"
what happens when we die? i don't know... i have some ideas but i dunno... no one does
did Yhweh create the earth using evolutionary processes over millions of years by the power of His Word or did He create it in 7 24hr periods? i dunno but one seems to hold more weight scientifically then the other...(i also believe that there is a reason the creation account in Genesis was revealed by the Designer Himself and the more we understand our physical world the more accurate the account becomes... only our mindsets have to change... the same way they changed when we moved to a heliocentric view of the solar-system)
is all life an accident or are we here by design?(that is the defining question) i don't know... there's no way anyone can for sure...
but at some point you have to put faith in something...
and there is something deep inside me that says
there is purpose to this thing we call life...
if it all turns out to just be a big cosmic-conundrum, nature's biggest blunder... i'm ok being wrong...
thinking that there is a design... a code to be broken is exciting...
and it is this excitement that has fueled the greatest minds in science
they enjoyed the mystery...
but somewhere along the line the church substituted magic for the mystical...
why? i don't know
is the One who spoke the wonder of this infinite universe not enough?
why have we adopted pagan absurdities?
why do we fight so hard to keep them?
the goal of science is to find answers to our questions... scientists used to be called philosophers...
the greatest never questioned the existence of a Designer only our interpretation of the design...
it seems we do the opposite now... we require the infinite to fit in our narrow minded ideology...
doesn't that seem backwards to anyone else...
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Question?
what would you do if one day during an intense time of worship you looked up and saw your pastor dancing around the church in the glory of his birthday-suit?
would you look away smile and continue to worship?
would you hide your child's eyes?
would you try to cover him up?
would you nudge the person next to you and turn it into a joke?
would you stomp out completely offended and find another church?
what would happen to your respect for your pastor?
how is it then that we can hold king david in such high regard?
david was an adulterous, murderer who exposed himself in public...
and yet we still regard him as "a man after Y'weh's own heart"...
david is even honored by Y'weh entering the world through his seed...
what does this say about our idea of grace and Y'weh's judgement?
what does it say about our own judgement calls?
do you ever watch LOST?
jj abrams has mastered this idea of relativity in judgement...
so often we hate a character only to love them after we know the whole story
and vice-versa
until you are able to understand each individual circumstance in it's entirety you will never be able to make accurate judgement calls... unless you are Omniscient this is an impossibility...
that is why Y'shua said you would be held accountable to your own judgements...
we have all done wrong... we are all "guilty"...
our judgements of others only nullify the forgiveness of our own sentence...
hell is for the guilty.... but because our guilt was placed on Y'shua
none are sentenced there...
rather it is a place reserved for those refusing forgiveness to pay their penance...
an eternal non-existence...
it was for freedom we were set free...
the question is what are we free from?
through Y'shua we are set free from judgements that destroy relationship...
we no longer have to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil...
what is acceptable and unacceptable.
we are free to participate in the Kingdom... free to experience love... to engage in the relationship between creator and creation... we are called to eat of the tree of Life... to produce the fruit of the Spirit...
so why do we chain ourselves to the first tree with our words of division... spending our days trying to be understood...
all men unless completely insane all want the same thing
quality of life
we disagree because we are human
if we can not overcome our humanity
we will never love
if we can not love
we will never have peace
without peace there is no
quality of life
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