God created the world in an ascending
order of complexity: from physical settings, to physiological orders, and
finally to mankind, the crown jewel of all creation. The way physical world
operates can be appreciated from the ocean waves: When the wind blows over, the
waves gets excited beneath; As the wind dies down, the water also calms down. Physiological
orders are much more complex in that, they encompass many intertwining mini-systems
each spawning its own myriad of causal links. Take a simple symptom of headache
for an example, it may not be simple at all, and could leave an experienced
physician clueless and give him a headache. Yet nothing is more complex than human
affairs. No historians or politicians can achieve the same kind of confidence in
solving social problems than doctors fixing human body ailments. Their wisdom is
only good for damage assessment afterwards. As far as human affairs go, from
small family feuds to huge international conflicts, once they go out of control,
they are beyond repair, no exceptions.
This high level of complexity in human
affairs has its root in the inner part of human nature. Everyone has a
freewill, a critical mind, is capable of self-reflection and self-adaption, possesses
a full spectrum of emotions. No physics or biology lessons can compete with
human dramas: from world wars, to government overthrows, to tribal fights, to family
quarrels, to love affairs, you name it. That’s why Hollywood is ever busy
producing next big hits, and now they’re underway in giving out the annual
Oscar awards for best human dramas.
Yet all human dramas have a sad ending,
and all the comedies are trying to distract us for a moment from looking at the
end. All masterpieces are tragedies move us to tears, partly because we see
ourselves in the play. The real bad news comes from the spoiler in the Bible: There
is no end to human tragedy, apparently that’s the only show featured in the Hell
and we’re all part of the cast.
God made all thing beautiful, but did
He overlook a bit in the very last part of His creation? When the Son of God
came, with one word, He can calm the raging sea and resurrect a dead human
body, yet how many words had he wasted that during his arrest not a single human
dare to speak on His behalf? That’s why He came, because in the wisdom of God,
there is one last step to make human perfect before God. For this the Son of
God came and died on the cross. Everyone is asked to face this Jesus, with your
own share of freewill, critical mind, self-reflection, self-adaption, and
emotion, to remake the choice that our ancestor blew up, and with the right
choice this time, you will be baptized with water, Holy Spirit, and fire, and
finally, you stand as a perfect masterpiece of God’s creation: one with freewill,
critical mind, self-reflection, self-adaption, full of emotion, holy and righteous
son of the living God!
9The
heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand
it? 10“I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every
man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.” (Jer. 17:9-10
ESV)
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