Be, Still, & Know

I have a few moments to reflect as looking into a lake from a boat and I wanted to do so while my awareness is heightened. Special Blog entry!

The World Future Society yearly conference in Vancouver, B.C. just concluded last night. It was an interesting and provocative three days. Odd, given the name of the organization, that it was generally quite an aged crowd. I am much more informed about trends. I walk away from the presentations both discouraged and encouraged.

Discouraged in that I don't trust in the schemes of man. Our inventiveness can never escape our destructiveness. We bring both to the table and both are in play. Or, to use the canoe metaphor, both oars are in the water. That our inventiveness, creativity, and motives can be, and often are at war with God, is peculiarly pernicious. Creativity is often viewed as a great plus...not so. To what ends are accomplished is the decider. Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral is shattering and splintering. And, like Humpty Dumpty, all the positive thinking in the world cannot put in back together again (Sin surely has tainted the glass). But, God can.

Yet, I am encouraged by the great truth that God is supreme and sovereign over the seas of human sin. As Christians, it is far too easy to get washed into despondency over human folly and wickedness. The tide of pessimism must be held back by the proclamation of hope that God's glory is being revealed through our attempts at Deity. God is never in a posture where creation does not declare His reign. When man acts like the Devil, human evil cannot be dismissed or obscured. Evil points to something being drastically awry in the Cosmos. The only alternative that the heathen have is to say there is no such thing as evil, which is quite hard to do empirically in days such as ours. The evidence is everywhere.

Be - We are accepted by God on the merits of Christ, we cannot "Do" grace. All of our doings, undo us. Still - Don't try to outrun God's judgment, accept forgiveness. And Know - The God of the Bible reigns, sustains, and redeems. That - God acts in history both incarnationally and providentially, His purposes will be accomplished. I AM GOD - God is a Person, not a creation of mans' wish fulfillment or a figment of our imagination.

Psalms 46:10

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

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