What’s
Really Real?
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Title:
What’s Really Real?
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Date: 12/16/2002
Keywords:
"seed”
“soil” “truth"
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Passage:
Mark 4:26-29*
26. And [Jesus]
was saying, “The kingdom of God is like a man who
casts seed upon the soil;
27. and he goes to bed at night
and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows
— how, he himself does not know.
28. The soil produces crops by
itself; first the blade, then the head, then the
mature grain in the head.
29. But when the crop permits,
he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest
has come.”
Question
What are 500 things you
use every day that you couldn’t fix if they
broke. (Just kidding, try maybe 10 and you’ll get
the point.)
Practical
help
The world we see, hear,
touch, taste and smell seems to be more real to us
than thoughts we think or ideas we contemplate. But
life is more than what’s out there, isn’t
it? Jesus seems to be telling us that the kingdom of
God is a mysterious thing. It’s real, but not
solid in the sense that wood is. Yet it is more real
than things we think are absolutely real.
The kingdom of God comes to us
under the radar so to speak, invading our worlds and
challenging us to rethink what is real and what is an
illusion.
Think about the last science
class you took and recall that matter is made up of
atoms. Furthermore, we learned that atoms are made up
of subatomic particles. But let’s not stop there.
If we plunge deeper into the mystery we enter the
world of sub-sub-atomic particles. At some point, we
discover that we just don’t know any more about
what makes matter what it is. I guess the funny thing
about atoms is the more you study them, the less real
them seem to become.
Now get out your telescope and
look deep into space. Or look over an
astronomer’s shoulder as he or she attempts to
interpret transmissions from Hubbell. What's out
there? A growing universe? What is it growing into?
Space? No space? Nobody knows. If this universe
started with a big bang, what came before the bang?
What’s mostly out there? Not much we call matter,
I’m afraid. Just more space, more nothing, more
mystery.
In light or our knowledge of
science, let return to Jesus’ parable. Has
it’s truth really changed after 2000 years?
Here’s my point, I tell you
that Jesus died for you and that according to the
Bible this somehow is suppose to enable you to have
eternal life, if you will just trust Him. But you can
press me and say, “Explain how this works... in
detail.” I will be able to describe what I know
from what I have read, perhaps with a few personal
anecdotes. At some point I think we both know I will
hit a wall beyond which I don’t have a clue why
and how it works. In the end, it’s God’s
idea, not mine. But hey, why should I be able to
explain spiritual realities at a level deeper than you
can explain to me “natural” realities?
You can choose to distract
yourself with pornography and miss truly living, or
you can seek to meet God in the Bible. Pick one up,
start reading with an open mind, and see what
happens.
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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD
BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation
1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977,
1995. Used by permission."
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