Tuesday, May 31, 2005

lenses and dichotomies: a brief observance

Yesterday I spent some time at my friend's house after a really fun Memorial Day picnic with Ahavat Yeshua : our Messianic Synagogue at Broad Ripple park. Played football, ate some good food, and walked alot, talked alot. What a fun day. Then we went to his home and hung out with his family, looked at pictures of England, and did some bible study later that night. While we were talking he (who is obsessed with the Indy 500) was talking about ideals and lenses. It got me thinking. What type of lenses do we view our faith through to understand? The Bible says we see through a glass darkly now. What if that glass are the lenses we view life through? For my friend we think it might be the way the 500 vs. Nascar to him epitomizes and symbolizes that which is good and that which is evil on even a metaphysical level (takes alot more explanation than I have patience to explain). But it could be true. None of us, save Yeshua, can view with all purity and objectivity the world. Can a Creator be truly objective about his own creation? A heretical question? Who knows. Much rumination lately on all kinds of topics. What lenses am I using? Are they cracked? I remember The Lens of Truth magnifying glass from The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. When you looked at something through it it showed you as it really was not the illusion in front of it. Will the Lord, if we ask, show us the truth and repair our cracked lenses? I am pretty sure He does if we ask Him for truth in love that he will give it to us.

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