Let Love Explode and Bring the Dead to Life!

So I've wanted to write this for a while.

I don't even know why it took me as long as it did.

Just some rambling thoughts of mine.

So the day I was heading home from my surgery, we stopped at Del Taco. I was just sitting in the car, and a guy walks out of DT and tries and throws away his lid. He misses. Ha! But onward... He knows he misses it, starts to walk away, but turns, walks back, picks it up. Conscience conscience conscience. For the rest of the 3 hour drive, it got me thinking about CS Lewis' awesome proof of God through morality in Mere Christianity. I totally recommend reading it, it's amazing!

Here's a snippet of the proof.

"My argument against God was that the universe seems so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?...Of course, I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if I did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depend on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, woe should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

So that whole ride home I thought of this crazy argument that CS Lewis brought forth. Without God, how would we know when someone wrongs us? How do we know what is wrong and right? Government created laws based off of some sort of "justice" they felt people deserved. But how can they compare shaking a friends hand, to hitting them in the face, without a Moral Standard? They can't. A line isn't crooked unless you know of a straight line.

Therefore, sin isn't sin, wrong isn't wrong, unless there is a Good God to show us what is right.

So. What most people believe is that there was a huge explosion, brought the world into existence, life evolved from monkeys, which evolved from specs in space, and then, somehow, people figured out right and wrong? Right? WRONG!

"Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled." - CS Lewis

There could never be something bad, without something good first. God is good. His perfectness was handed down to Adam and Eve. They then ruined that good, and created the bad. Therefore, the right and wrong principle was brought forth to the minds of men.

I absolutely love thinking about this. About God. There are so many things that absolutely prove that God exists. That God is real, alive, and loves us. But there are also so many people that turn away, and decide not to believe.

But news for those that turn and decide to chase their own follies:

"God exists whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that is is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God."

-Robert A. Laidlaw

So let those of us that know this wonderful loving God, continue to run the race He's prepared for us. Allowing His glory to overtake any earthly desire of ours. Our God is full of mercy and full of love. Let's let love explode and bring the dead to life.

Titus 3:4-7:

"But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life."

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