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Pentecost 84 Not Another 'Chick Flick'!
Pentecost 84 Not Another ‘Chick Flick'!
“Oh no, not another chick flick!.” When I want to see a movie it is usually an action kind of movie where the good guys beat the bad guys and somewhere inside you hope that will be reality in the real world. But lately I have been coaxed into watching a few ‘chick flicks.’ My reaction is usually a begrudging OK. The funny thing is I actually enjoyed the ones I’ve seen. They were light hearted, well acted and each one had a little moral that life can be beautiful if we just let it happen without taking it too seriously. When I say ‘too seriously’ I mean that the world is not going to change because of me or because it’s not like I want it to be. Life is not all about me nor is the world all about me. If I start thinking that way, the result is frustration, anger and irritability. Perhaps we all need a few chick flicks to lighten up.
But more importantly we need first to understand what the ‘world’ is. What we call ‘the world’ is really the spiritual state of society apart from God. It is an atmosphere out of touch with its source. It is unbalanced, corrupted by an evil influence and no human being in history since Adam and Eve has been able to solve its condition. We are born into it, flawed by our susceptibility to self-centering principles and desperate for a personal solution so we can live in it. Our minds, hearts, and spirits are not in balance, at war within and battling without. Pride and fear consume human energy. That’s what sin is all about.
Someone with a spiritually personal perspective from the outside had to come to show what the imbalance is, what caused it and then how to deal with it. This is why Jesus came. No human being has the personal insight, the intellectual capability, the spiritual power or perfect balance to change it. So God sent His Son Jesus to exhibit what a balanced human heart, mind and spirit can be when we first put everything in a spiritual perspective. That’s why we ask what makes Him so unique, so balanced? What informed His mind, what motivated His heart and what gave Him that spiritual power to change not only our personal destiny but also the destiny of history and the world?
In John 14 Jesus uses three words that are inextricably linked in Him to recapture a working unity of heart, mind and spirit in us---trust (vs.1), belief (vs.10) and faith (vs.12). These are the perfect qualities of God. Trust for the heart, belief for the mind and faith for the spirit; these Jesus showed as the means to restore balance to the world. These three words are used by Jesus to reach into our mind, heart and spirit. He lived all three among us to show what humanity was meant to be like. He tells us in 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In 14:10 He says, “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words [for the mind] I say to you are not just my own. Rather it is the Father living in me who is doing the work.” And last in 14:12, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing [acting out His Father’s will].”
Remember, we are all created in the image of God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, mind, heart and spirit in perfect balance. What did the Father say? “This is my Son, whom I love, listen to Him.” Think Jesus.
Stay tuned…….
“Oh no, not another chick flick!.” When I want to see a movie it is usually an action kind of movie where the good guys beat the bad guys and somewhere inside you hope that will be reality in the real world. But lately I have been coaxed into watching a few ‘chick flicks.’ My reaction is usually a begrudging OK. The funny thing is I actually enjoyed the ones I’ve seen. They were light hearted, well acted and each one had a little moral that life can be beautiful if we just let it happen without taking it too seriously. When I say ‘too seriously’ I mean that the world is not going to change because of me or because it’s not like I want it to be. Life is not all about me nor is the world all about me. If I start thinking that way, the result is frustration, anger and irritability. Perhaps we all need a few chick flicks to lighten up.
But more importantly we need first to understand what the ‘world’ is. What we call ‘the world’ is really the spiritual state of society apart from God. It is an atmosphere out of touch with its source. It is unbalanced, corrupted by an evil influence and no human being in history since Adam and Eve has been able to solve its condition. We are born into it, flawed by our susceptibility to self-centering principles and desperate for a personal solution so we can live in it. Our minds, hearts, and spirits are not in balance, at war within and battling without. Pride and fear consume human energy. That’s what sin is all about.
Someone with a spiritually personal perspective from the outside had to come to show what the imbalance is, what caused it and then how to deal with it. This is why Jesus came. No human being has the personal insight, the intellectual capability, the spiritual power or perfect balance to change it. So God sent His Son Jesus to exhibit what a balanced human heart, mind and spirit can be when we first put everything in a spiritual perspective. That’s why we ask what makes Him so unique, so balanced? What informed His mind, what motivated His heart and what gave Him that spiritual power to change not only our personal destiny but also the destiny of history and the world?
In John 14 Jesus uses three words that are inextricably linked in Him to recapture a working unity of heart, mind and spirit in us---trust (vs.1), belief (vs.10) and faith (vs.12). These are the perfect qualities of God. Trust for the heart, belief for the mind and faith for the spirit; these Jesus showed as the means to restore balance to the world. These three words are used by Jesus to reach into our mind, heart and spirit. He lived all three among us to show what humanity was meant to be like. He tells us in 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In 14:10 He says, “Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words [for the mind] I say to you are not just my own. Rather it is the Father living in me who is doing the work.” And last in 14:12, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing [acting out His Father’s will].”
Remember, we are all created in the image of God; Father, Son and Holy Spirit, mind, heart and spirit in perfect balance. What did the Father say? “This is my Son, whom I love, listen to Him.” Think Jesus.
Stay tuned…….
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