Hope for the future...

The last three posts are old posts from about 4 years ago that I've finally put up. What I find most exciting and hopeful about them is that they show how much more settled I feel than when I wrote them. As I have grown older, the rawness I had inside has turned into a beautiful settledness and peace inside, and I know that with age I'll feel even more settled and alive.

I'd like to be able to show people the hope there is in life and that Christianity is a bastion of hope. More properly, the Bible is a bastion of hope, for many see Christianity as a sign of a repression, something that God never meant Christianity to be.

As humans, somehow we have a tendency to look for the negative and to hurt each other. We have a tendency to set up competing religions, belief systems, and to separate people from each other through various types of prejudice. As much as I and the Bible talk about hope, sometimes it seems that believing in hope goes against the zeitgeist of human history.

BUT, GOD is remarkable, for the zeitgeist of human history goes against him, but somehow he will win! But in the in-between time we are in now, it is tempting to blame God for the evil going on in our world. Indeed, I came dangerously close to doing this myself a few posts ago. But the truth is that the in-between time we are in now is very small compared to the time we shall spend in heaven and that part of the reason God tolerates the great evil humans produce is because this unperfect world forces us to yearn for something better. Heaven. The death of my son has made heaven seem much closer than ever before. The inequalities of today show us that better is coming. God is real and is in charge. There is more than hope for the future, but in fact CERTAINTY.