Sometimes we get confused...
We would like this life to be a life of no tears, or death or pain. But it isn't.
This life is the old order...
And as much as we would like this life to be easy, good and pain-free and as much as we would like to stamp our feet and "deemand" this as our right, it is not.
This order is the one that you and I and Adam and Eve usurped. We grabbed at it. We wanted to be self-determined, self-governed and self-sustained. We wanted to be like God. So we created a world-order: the order of the self.
The problem is that what myself wanted was different from what yourself wanted and so Cain slew Abel and chaos has followed ever since. This is our order... (and it's pretty bad news and it's pretty much our fault!)
But there is another order on the way - it is growing like yeast in the dough of the old order and the Day will come when the old order will pass away. We'll move from the self-order to the God-order. And in His order there is love, comfort and healing...
Just as in a bakery you sometimes get a whiff of the yeast working in the dough, we get hints of the fragrance of the coming order in the midst of the old order, but it won't be be fully realised until that Day that Jesus comes in the clouds to pronounce His Kingdom, His Order.
But in the meantime, we weep and mourn and endure, comforted in knowing that the old order WILL PASS AWAY!
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Theo Groeneveld theo@emmanuel.org.za
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