When I read news articles, I often find my eyes literally, compulsively closing. If they are closed, then God's definition of marriage will not morph into the new word I learned today: polymory. AKA: anything goes. It's coming, people. And historically no nation has survived it. Chuckle if you want, but then read your history.
If I close my eyes, Mr. Duck Dynasty would not have to crudely express God's thoughts on matters of homosexuality and the media would not have to take up arms, while TV execs rub their hands together in delight.
Babies would be valued. Slavery would be abolished. Cancer would be eradicated.
The curse, though, was that our eyes would be wide open. Evil would enter the world, and we would have to see it, live it, breathe it. It would touch each and everyone of us. Some of us would embrace it. Some would resist. Some would ignore. All of us would long for something else.
I read recently that "God does not have a wonderful plan for our lives." What? But, but...that's what I've heard ever since I was a baby Christian. It sounds so...wonderful. I mean, Jeremiah 29:11, right?
No, the truth is, God has a wonderful plan for our eternity. We can live pleasing and holy-ish lives, but we still reside East of Eden for now. We might as well keep our eyes wide open, speak truth in love, and celebrate the hope of the final garden. We will be laughed at, criticized, and persecuted for this hope. But it is ours.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light and momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
Insightful and well-penned, Jill. Thanks for sharing.
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