Worm, Part VIII

Life is so frail. In an instant, cancer can rock your world to the core. The death of a loved one can send you spiraling into depths of despair. Crime and violence can put an end to hopes and dreams. A simple virus can forever change your life for the worst. Your life can end without notice as a result of your own actions or even the actions of another. Our life can change from good to bad so quickly. We are all in the same boat and as much as we would like to think all things are in our control and that we are resilient, it is obvious that we clearly are not. We think we are strong, intelligent, civilized, but in reality we all share the same weaknesses. It is important for us to understand our weakness and the frailty of life because if we don't we will never see the strength and goodness of God.

 

For everything that we have that is good is as a result of God's mercy and love and everything that is wrong with this world is us. It is our own social structure (built on top of God's creation) that causes us the most problems. Think about this.... where do our problems come from? Bills, credit problems, people in our life (conflict), meeting goals, achieving status, the job, deadlines, commitments, stress, even our own possessions enslave and bring us into bondage. Of course, the problems mentioned at the start of this post can also ruin you which are totally out of our control.

It is a wonder we even exist from second to second and that wonder IS God Almighty. Strength is a joke. Your degrees mean nothing. There are millions of people that are smarter than you but are clue less about humility, which is the beginning of wisdom. You are going to die like everyone else. Sound depressing? You must realize (not dwell on and live in fear every moment of your life) but only realize how weak you truly are so you can see that God is good and provides you with all that is good in your life. He shines his goodness on the evil and the good so that he can shame us all into repentance. His power and wisdom are found in what men think is foolishness.

^{1 Corinthians 1:20-25}

²⁰Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ²¹For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. ²²Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, ²³but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, ²⁴but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. ²⁵For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.