it’s been a long few years journeying away from some things and toward others. along the way i’ve de-emphasized some things while emphasizing others. i don’t think it has to be like this, but i suppose it’s just natural. perhaps i need to learn to better live in the tension, to think with two hands rather than one.
it’s good to remember, though, that the god can’t be an individual’s “all in all.” we already tried that back in the garden. it didn’t work. even before brokenness entered the picture, the god could not satisfy the man’s deepest needs. the god even had the audacity to utter, “it is not good for the man to be alone.”
alone?
the power and the infiniteness and the love and beauty and faithfulness given for the pleasure of the man…and it’s not enough?
how far we have come from those days! it’s common now among some circles to insist that only the god can truly satisfy, but i bet most of the people saying this are married and having sex, so we can’t really trust them. he said he will make a companion for him. because companionship from his powerfulness
was still
not
enough.
and now we have songs saying that “all of you is more than enough for all of me”!
such damage this does.
of course there are times for that aspect of life, though. remember: two hands.
for me, one of those times is now. what sermons and books and conversations cannot do, music can. music has a way of cutting through the cognitive aspects and beelining straight for the soul. almost as if to say, “i don’t care what you think. this is good.”
