H,
There is always a tale to tell about grace. We live under a light that
repeats itself solely for our benefit. It is set up in such a way that it is
available again and again, without fail. There is no gain for God in how we act
or what we say. He is not larger or smaller because of what we do or don’t do. The
only thing that living in the light changes in the whole of the universe is us.
And all this does not reduce the value of the human soul. The whole idea
of inherent value comes from the creative love of God. They created beings
capable of understanding the light. We are made to be friends with our creator.
Not robots or toys or fodder but actual friends. There is nothing deeper than
this idea. There is no precedent for what a human being is in this regard.
We cannot be friends and not know that it all means. We cannot be
friends without understanding what He means and what that means for us. We are
slowly learning, as in the dark and through failure and obedience, the height
and depth of the love of God.
This is the reason the light repeats itself. We have no context for what
that is. We are learning slowly. To run it all fast will only lead to error. To
act like we know when we are still in process is the singular crime of our
faith. When we invent doctrine, we invent error and chaos and ruin other lives
and our own. For a time.
For the story is not yet ended. What we lose sight of here we will see
fully over there. There is no human act that is fatal to the will of God. We must
remember this. There is nothing They cannot do. The reformation of the human
heart is always and only a choice away. And with that, the many choices after,
always leading into the light.