H,
There is a certain
romanticism built around rebellion. It is so ingrained in the fiber of our
current being that to follow a straight line is to be something of a cube or, more
particularly, square. The thinking out of the box brigade and all that
sanitized, market-driven and mass produced collage of ideas that are not really
ideas at all, keep telling us that if we want a straight life there is
something bent about us.
Now, there is something to
be said for not being sheep but I think it has to be said in very low tones by
us Christians. We are sheep of His pasture being led out of the wilderness and
back home to universe that actually makes sense in every way. We do not mind
following, we are walking a narrow way that runs straight through the dark and
we have a sure light. There is uncertainty enough in this phase of living. And there
is nothing cool about burning out, dying young, hurting others or following the
textbook about how not to follow textbooks.

More than all that though,
is that we are already in rebellion. We are walking away from our base nature
into the person we will forever be. We are in media res of a story that we must
rebel from to even walk our own straight line. The stakes are eternally high. We
could only wish harder for the much maligned straight line.