There is a fly at my window. He can’t get out. He must be puzzled. He can see the outside. There are trees, azaleas, blue sky and squirrels right in front of him, but try as he might he can’t get to them. There is this invisible barrier that keeps him from buzzing off to freedom. He is so much like us. In First Corinthians 13 Paul tells us we see through a glass darkly. So the fly is better off than we. His glass is transparent. God has shared so much of Himself to us. Yet there are still so many questions, so many mysteries. Sometimes we think we almost grasp some eternal truth only to have it fade back into our pool of unanswered questions.
Jesus once said to His disciples, “There is so much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now.” John 16:12. It was their last night together. He would be dead the next brutal day. They were struggling with their dream of a physical kingdom. He wanted them to understand the bigger picture. I am not so sure we are much different than they. When we speak of heaven we speak in such physical terms. But there is much beyond the physical. The physical is only a part of our being. We are also spiritual beings. It is there so many of the unanswered questions reside. What does it mean to be the temple of the Holy Spirit? Why the necessity for so much suffering? What is eternity and what does it mean to never stop growing? How far away is heaven? Is it light years from here or already here in another dimension? How can I live according to the Sermon on the Mount?
We are flies desperately trying to be free. See Galatians 5.
Written by Roger Bothwell on May 13, 2012
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