Okay, “tomorrow” turned into three days later. My bad.
Anyway, picking up where I left off…
The fundamental question – the only question – in our lives beyond mere existence on this planet that matters is who do we think Jesus is. Everything else descends from this. And as mentioned last time, everything else is negotiable. Who Jesus is? No leeway. Either He is Who He says He is, or He’s a bloody liar. And if He’s the latter – which He isn’t – why should anyone care about a two thousand year old liar?
If He is Who He says He is, the equation immediately, irrevocably changes.
If He is Who He says He is, we need to live according to His word.
If He is Who He says he is, we need to follow His call.
If He is Who He says He is, we need to evaluate all aspects of our lives – what we say, what we do, what we think, with whom we associate – in light of His truth.
If He is Who He says He is, the only genuine wisdom on this earth stems from His wisdom and His truth. It is rooted in and grows from His wisdom and His truth. It has no origin save His wisdom and His truth.
Even as His creation is His, so His wisdom and truth are His. Man may reflect these in part, for we are His creation and made by Him in His image. Yet only those who acknowledge the sole source of His wisdom and truth have any genuine measure of wisdom within.
Even as the parrot mimics words of which it has no understanding or comprehension, many mimic words of wisdom and truth with no understanding or comprehension. They have a veneer of wisdom, yet they deny not only Christ’s sovereign place in their lives but also deny His very existence. Their veneer is window dressing and shadow boxing hiding the truth: they have no wisdom. None. As David wrote in the Psalms: “The fool says in his heart,’There is no God.’”
Apply this to politics. In the early ’80s when backmasking was the offense du jour among the evangelical fringe’s more hysterical screechers, the Christian arena rock band Petra put a unmistakable backwards message at the beginning of one of their songs. When played in reverse, the revealed message was this: “Why are you looking for the Devil when you should be looking for the Lord?” This remains true today, only now we are looking for the Lord from those who belong to the Devil.
Regardless of political persuasion, all believers should, as in all things, let Christ reign supreme. They should seek out fellow believers who also have an understanding of both fundamentals and their outgrowth based in Biblical truth.
Such people do indeed exist.
So why do we herald Christ and Christian haters?
Why do we give credence to the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Allahpundit? If their knowledge and wisdom is so fatally flawed they deny the very existence of Christ, how then can they be upheld as ones with knowledge and wisdom? They have none.
None.
They may parrot wisdom. But they have no wisdom.
None.
So what think ye of the Christ?
And what think ye of those who think nothing of Him?
And what will the answer be when standing before Him should He ask why we celebrated parroting fools?
Personally, I’d rather not find out.
And there’s only way to do that.
Now isn’t there.
Good words, Jerry. And, by extension, why do we listen to adulterers and drug addicts just because the “right” people tell us we have to in order to be Christians? There is just as little Christ in the Right as there is in the Left, and I decided long ago: to literal Hell with Rush Limbaugh, John McCain, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, and every other adulterous son-of-a-bitch who is embraced by Focus on the Family and the other arms of the Religious Right. I will never understand why people who committed deliberate acts of hatred against their own families are the go-to guys for soundbites against gay marriage and other “family issues”. These are some of the most evil men in America, and it literally nauseates me every time I see Christians touting them as wiser men than those who preserve their marriages and families.