All things being equal...

All things being equal—wait!  Let’s not go any further.

We use the expression casually without ever thinking, that all things are never really equal.  God is above all things.  People trying to make sense out of this world try to do so from an “all things being equal” standpoint.  They are not.

God’s ways and thoughts are higher than our thoughts.  To make sense of the creation without regard for the Creator brings us to confusion not clarity.  Before science fiction and fantasy authors can tell their story, they must first get their audience to suspend their disbelief.  Whether the story is about zombies or aliens or zombie aliens, the author must first get his or her readers to “buy in” to whatever universe must exist for the story to continue.

This can happen with words scrolling across the screen Star Wars style or with a simple, once upon a time; but it must happen or the story never gets off the ground.  That’s the life of the fiction writer.

Unfortunately, it is also the life of many people living in what they believe is the real world.  They think that all things being equal, this thing or that way is the solution.  All things are not equal.  God reigns.  His law and his love prevail.  Those who go against it are not going to prosper.

We take the walk and profess our faith as Christians and then we break out the world’s rule book and wonder why being a Christian doesn’t seem to change much.  We have a different walk to walk than does the world.  We have become strangers in this world.

To believe that all things being equal, this is how things should work is to suspend our disbelief and live by the rules of the world when we know better.

God wove his wisdom into the fabric of the universe.  Reality for the Christian is God’s wisdom.  Why do we spend so much time trying to make the world’s wisdom work when it is based upon a false reality?

Jesus didn’t come to turn the world upside down.  He came to put us right side up again.

As we continue in this Advent season, let’s get ready to have our world placed right side up again.  Let’s stop suspending our disbelief and believing the story that the world wants to tell.   It’s fiction.  It is time to believe the truth.

God is love.

Real life is in Jesus.

We are to love one another.

Let’s get ready to celebrate the birth of our King into this world and ready to embrace his return and live in the truth in this time in between--a time when the world would have us believe everything but the truth.

All things are not equal.  Let's follow the One who is above all things.

Advent of the King

Advent of the King

Silent Night

Holy Night

I think I may

I think I might

Wonder if we've gone so wrong

Do we even know what is right?

The days are filled again with ads

Of 3D games and new IPads

Of things that surely we must have

To ease life’s pain and be our salve

So we may just keep going on

The road so wide instead of the narrow path.

But as we live so lukewarm day to day

Will we hear the one who says, prepare the way

Or just go about our lives in dismay

Blinded to the arrival of our hope and stay

With the victory already won

Will the words Jesus is Lord be what we pray?

But one will be taken and another left

Joy and sorrow in such glorious theft

Some shouting for joy and some bereft

Where do you stand in this judgment cleft

Without the Lamb of God, who is his Son

Or washed in his blood with steps both blessed and deft.

And one day we will see him coming on the clouds

The trump will sound much louder than loud

And heaven will celebrate with such renown

That every soul will in joy abound

When Christ the Kings comes and rules as the Son

Love has won the victory and all will astound.

We do so wish that this day would come soon

Even if trouble must first come to the sun and the moon.

For we know what to do in the words of a familiar tune

Let every heart prepare him room

And heaven and nature will sing on and on

And every trouble and tear will be long gone.

You might be from western Oklahoma, if...

If you don’t know what day Advent or Lent begins but know by heart the dates for bow season, you might be from western Oklahoma.

If you have never been to a rock concert, a major league baseball game, or a live Broadway show but you have starred in or attended Turkey Tracks 3 or more times, then you might be from western Oklahoma.


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