Had my first sharing with the Youth’s today and it was rather interesting, teaching on the topic of original sin, dependence on God and the nature of our own. Funny how using the dark ages as a platform such a topic could be built; yet it was also a time that i would rarely speak off. A time where the corruption and perversion of good had reached such a pinnacle, that light became dark, and the salt and light that Christians were called t, came to mean the opposite of what it was intended.
At such a time as this, the bastions of light became bastions of evil.
How did such an event take place? Simply put, those who were leaders of the church sought to further their own authority, seek power and forgetting that the very position they were in, was given by the Holy God. Therein our initial sin came to surface, self dependence, man being unsatisfied with their portion, sought to be God.
Thinking on it, even in this era, such practices are still prevalent, humans seeking to be financially ‘free’ in order to ‘make’ time to do whatever they want. Or to be independent in order to be ‘free’ from the grasp of parents, from the authority that binds them, from the ‘tyrannical’ grasp of God? If the basic assumption of a word is missing, the entire action of a person will cease to be steered correctly; as though a man without a past who tries to build a present and a future based on fiction. In the end the only future a man would have is one built on air, lacking any roots to firmly hold him in place.
As a people of God, are we starting to build our foundations on things other than the Lord?
For the mind is unable to understand the perfect, hence in our hubris, we define it as lack luster, calling it darkness rather than light. Even the Pharisee’s accused Jesus of casting demons through the authority of demons… a truly human trait. That when one is steeped in his own definition of justice, holiness, righteousness, even the Holy becomes demonic.
Truly, as man, without our link with God, paid in the price of His own blood, we have no future, for we have denied our past.
