What has survived your childhood? Here’s my list:
Most of your childhood is gone forever. Do you see in your childhood remnants any foretastes of who you are or faint rumblings of who you might yet become? ~ Leonard Sweet, Soul Salsa
Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ~Jesus Christ
“Find the truth and turn it loose in the world (Leonard Sweet)” …
“The truth is loose, it’s got an APB out on it, though, and it is being pursued by the authorities (Vern Hyndman)” …
Not to worry, TRUTH always TRUMPS.
There is a battle over defining what is real in our lives. The sooner we wake up to this struggle the better. This battle over defining reality extends to our relationships, our marriage, family, work, business, community, region, and nation.
Satan comes and claims, “This is reality for you. Get used to it!” Jesus comes and says, “I have a higher reality which trumps the “reality” of the Liar. Trust Me. Work with Me. You’re going to get free and experience everything I have for you.”
“O the power of private prayer! I hath a kind of omnipotency in it.”
- Thomas Brooks
“Eat, friends; Drink and imbibe deeply, O lovers.”
- God to the married couple, Song of Solomon 5.1b
“Sex makes free.” (Famous graffiti appearing in Berkeley, CA in the 1960’s. A parody of the Nazi slogan, “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work makes free.”)
Andree Seu of World Magazine says that our culture is now desperately asking sex to be the ALPHA and OMEGA, the beginning and ending of all things. It is the idolization of sex. “Sex makes free … I can express my sexuality in any way I want at any time I want.”
Honoring God with our obedience is the way our sexuality is guarded and guided. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened (Rom. 1:16 ESV). To suppress the knowledge of God in our lives brings a disorder to our personal world, including our sexuality.
Human sexuality is an amazing gift to us from our Creator. Immensely powerful, beautiful in and of itself, what if it points to a Sacred Romance? Could it be that Jesus Christ is supreme over all reality, including human sexuality? And, could it be that the supremacy of Christ is the way to life, liberty, and fulfillment?
“Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.”
~ J. Budziszewski
Naturalism. Materialism. Evolution. Atheism. Secularized humanism. Et al. Reality … any other shape is a lie …
Now is the shining fabric of our day torn open, flung apart, rent wide by love.
Never again the tight, enclosing sky, the blue bowl or the star-illumined tent.
We are laid open to infinity, for Easter love has burst His tomb and ours.
Now nothing shelters us from God’s desire – not flesh, not sky, nor stars, not even sin.
Now glory waits so He can enter in. Now does the dance begin.
~ Elizabeth Rooney, The Opening
