The hardest thing you’ll ever do is rewrite all the mental programming that demands you try to save this life and this world.
Try to process: This world is damned and God will not permit it be saved. He wants the hearts of people, and He wants them to devote their time in this world glorifying His name. That means obeying His revelation, and it’s His revelation that warns us this world is not worth our concern. In other words, results don’t matter in terms that humans can measure them. The only outcome that matters is your sense of peace with God. Yeah, chew on that for a while.
Granted, God’s revelation does tell us how this world works, and how we can live in shalom. The bulk of it actually is within the grasp of fallen humans, but the underlying moral orientation is not. That moral fabric is discernible only in the heart.
Now we know that some parts of that moral fabric are available to those lacking spiritual birth, but the full picture is closed to them. And we know that a vast majority of those spiritually reborn have no clue about the heart-led way. A significant minority of the Spirit-born have some limited clue, simply because that’s how spiritual birth works. But there is also a significant number of folks professing spiritual birth who are only lying to themselves. They have a mere psychological conversion, and exercise virtually no conviction at all. It’s all about the logic of things, of accepting the rational premises of Scripture.
Yet we who are heart-led and Spirit-born know that the Bible is just a physical artifact of something much bigger, deeper and alive. The words are not really the point, but how God uses those words to convey something far more substantial than what the mind can process.
And this is the primary reason we know that this world cannot be fixed. The world cannot receive the underlying truth on that hidden channel. Most people can find no good reason for obeying the Bible; it demands things that are beyond reason. Reason cannot reach into Heaven; reason is part of the mortal flesh.
And that mortality itself is the marker for what really doesn’t matter. The problem is that our mission to reveal the ultimate truth of things requires that we have some awareness of how this mortal life matters so much to mortal souls. We have to understand their dread of death, and that we can do nothing to take that dread away. Indeed, we struggle with overcoming it in ourselves; our flesh rejects dying. Even the bravest noble heroes are hoping to honor the best of this damned existence by how they die. It’s still a focus on this life. What mankind considers noble and brave simply does not matter in the Spirit Realm.
That’s the whole point of God having Moses record the narrative of the Fall. What makes us fallen is our reflex to demand the right to decide for ourselves — on whatever grounds — what is good, right and noble. The answer can never be right if you take the wrong path getting there. It means closing off the convictions of the heart from all consideration. It means shutting out the only part of you that can discern ultimate moral truth. It is an inherent rejection of God’s revelation.
Our fleshly nature militates against reprogramming based on the truth. Flesh refuses to kneel before the Creator. People dying is not a tragedy. People rejecting divine revelation is the real tragedy.
Again: This world is doomed. Every time we hear someone pitching an idea, we need to run it through the filter that removes a care for this life. If there’s anything left after that, then maybe we can give it some of our attention.
