08/14/2024
“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in his own skin; he cannot trust his own instincts. He is at once a creator moving miraculous hands and fingers and a kind of cripple. He is wrapped in artificial bandages called clothes; he is propped on artificial crutches called furniture. His mind has the same doubtful liberties and the same wild limitations. Alone among the animals, he is shaken with the beautiful madness called laughter; as if he had caught sight of some secret in the very shape of the universe hidden from the universe itself. Alone among the animals he feels the need of averting his thought from the root realities of his own bodily being; of hiding them as in the presence of some higher possibility which creates the mystery of shame.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
Here we sit, made in the image of God, often playing at life - a life that yearns for a Genesis 2 world....yet trapped in a Genesis 3 world of our own making. For the "alien" habits we live out each day, our fallen nature through the introduction of sin, hides our original design - in all of its wonder and joy.
Physical and spiritual, a battle of wills on a daily, no, hourly basis. Even our "beautiful madness," our moments of joy and laughter, seem so foreign in a lost and dying world...and yet. Yet.
Our yearning for home is not one devoid of hope—for the Creator, the God of the Heavens, has created, crafted, and gifted us all a way home—should we seek it. For His Son, the One and Only Jesus, offers us His Way, His Truth, His Life. No one comes to the Father or goes home except through Him.
Should you yearn for a way home, fellow traveler, know that there is a way - and it is available to us all. That feeling deep inside, the one you know is saying, "There is so much more to this life...." is calling you to a deeper understanding of it all - and He has given His Son as a way to it all.
