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“Tis strange-but true; for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction;… Lord Byron
We are entering into an era where what Lord Byron
quotes is a reality. It is becoming increasingly uncomfortable to be wise and
intelligent because we are constantly bombarded with instances and happenings
that question our credibility for common sense. We are nurtured to believe in
the fact that existence of God is always away from us, safe and secure in
a religious structure. The concept of keeping God outside of us not only gives
us the convenience to be wicked, dirty, and downright deplorable but we also
try to camouflage our sinful life by making the outside physical structure more
holy and pure.
Not once do we think that if a religious place
needs to be holy, pure, and clean, how much more we who are created by God
should be holy, pure, and clean. We exist to worship God and have Him in our
heart, we don’t exist to go and worship in a religious place. Have we ever
wondered, if God wanted to stay in a religious place, why He must create us in
the first place. The Bible says the earth and all that is in it is His.
If the stones and mud with which we create these religious places are His, then
what is the benefit of our earthly existence. The stones and mud are doing a
much better job of staying pure and holy than us. He doesn’t need us at all.
Have we ever thought of it this way?
The sheer fact that we keep our creator far away
has made us dangerously less in wisdom and intelligence. If we ask God to live
in our hearts, our conscience will rip us apart. Hence, we conveniently place
Him outside of us and replaced God with money, power, greed, and promiscuous
lifestyle as the gods of our heart. God created us to live in our hearts and to
provide His divine wisdom and understanding. He does not need a time out and
rest from taking care of you. Even as humans, would we in our love for a person
relent from taking care or from being with a loved one? Why do we think a God
who is all powerful will somehow be frail that He needs rest from taking care
or being with the one He created when he/she visits Him? We just project our
human weaknesses on the divine and lower Him to our pathetic existence.
The problem is we do not want to believe the truth
that Jesus is a living God who created us, that He rose from the dead, that He
is an all-powerful God who is the maker of Heaven and Earth. We do not want to
believe the fact that Jesus is not a myth but a person in history who
experienced human frailty and yet remained pure and holy without committing
wickedness and sin. We want to refuse a God who loves us immensely that He gave
His one and only son to cleanse us from our sins. He is a God who neither sleeps
nor slumbers and continuously caring for us. As Lord Byron says, indeed truth
is becoming so strange that fiction becomes more convenient and acceptable than
truth.
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