And Then What?
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Our View Of Wonder Is Not in Nature, Wonderful As It Is.
It is God Given.
First Samuel 2:30
Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: “I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me for ever”; but now the Lord declares: “Far be it from me; for those who honour me I will honour, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt….”
Romans 2:4
Or do you despise the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not realize that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?
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Words of Grace For Today
Listening to CBC’s Ideas: Astrophysicist Hubert Reeves on The Origins of Us (the Big Bang Theory), a popularizer of science little known in the English world, but famous in France, who died Friday, 13 October 2023:
The world began with a bang.
A very big bang, a theory that is ‘proven’ by 10 things that it predicts, which have since been discovered to exist.
We have messed it up royally.
God is kind, dealing with us with forbearance and patience.
So what then?
Snippets for the conversation with Reeves:
The universe is strange, more strange than we think, more strange than we are able to think.
Our way of thinking does not need to reflect reality. Reality is very counterintuitive.
We think in an operational way, that provides for our survival.
What is the power of our way of understanding the world.
We have limited intelligence.
There is no guarantee that our way of thinking is able to go the profoundest depth of the universe.
Our way of thinking is operational. There is no guarantee when we apply it to the universe. There is no guarantee that we can understand everything.
Can we understand at least that God’s kindness, forbearance, and patience is exercised for us for a purpose: that we will find our senses, and confess, and repent.
For while there is no proof that we know everything, and especially everything about the universe, we can know God’s Grace, and respond with humble confession and repentance.
That is not so far out in the universe that we cannot get around to God’s kindness leading us to repentance and understand it well,
or well enough to trust God will be patient with us as we figure it out.
A day’s task.
Every day’s task.