IRONY MAN
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."I AM IRONY MAN.." "Haaaas heeee lost his mind, can he see or is he blind.."
Irony. It's the fact that, my most creative and profound ideas come to me, if they're gonna come, when I'm in bed and I cannot afford to get up and spend time writing them down. My life is filled with these kinds of annoyances.
Like, the time when my body is most deeply relaxed and ready to fall asleep, is a few minutes from when it's time to wake up, or right when it's time to finish my lunch break nap and get back to work. Sounds a little like murphy's law. Murph must have been an irony man. He must have found ten thousand spoons when all he needed was a knife. before you can gain you've got to give , you've got to die in order to live..". Jesus too talked about the paradox of how a seed must die in the ground before it grows into new life. The message we must die to ourselves in order to be born again in Him, most likely was not understood by many who heard Him there, and I fear not really understood by most Christians today.
We do live in a fallen and cursed world though, one of our own doing.
- everything dies. everything comes to an end.
- everything runs out
- everything winds down
- everything wears out
- everything shuts down
- everything diminishes, rusts, collapses, collects dust
- degrades, dulls, shrinks, and fails . This is a natural law . the law thermodnyamics. The law of Entropy.
Foolish men want the glory ascribed to themselves for their discovery of scentific truths that has been hidden away by God for years
(yet our Darwinistic society will fight to defend their notion that things went from a chaos to order, evolving upward.)...talk about irony!
Jesus had a pretty cool way of dealing with this. He said "set not your heart on things of the Earth where moth and rust do corrupt.."
"duuuust in the wiiiiind, all they are is dust in the wind...."
So,...the difference between "Iron man" and "Irony man",...is "Y". why. why does life have to seem so hopeless and futile? I think it has something to do with God's wise plan for our lives here on Earth.
"..He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." (Eccles. 3:11) God doesn't want us to get too comfortable here. It's not our home, we're just passing through.
Even though it was our willingness as a species to disobey God originally that brought corruption into the world, I think God in His great wisdom uses the corruption of life to bring us back to Him. Our lives are in a way, flawed by design, or , allowed to be flawed.
" For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope," (Rom 8:20)
Here Paul is saying hope is a beautiful thing. God intentionally makes us subject to the emptiness and futility of this word, so that hope might be fostered in us, and in the end, He is rightfully glorified when we see that He is there ready to show amazing grace and inexplicable mercy. And really, if we had everything in the world go just right all the time, what meaning would hope have? No pain no gain. What dont kill ya will make ya stronger.
Paul explained the same thing earlier in Romans 5:3-5, when he said the tribulation of this murphyfied planet teaches us patience, which gives us experience, which engenders hope in us, and he says, that's a good thing. It leads to us having our hearts filled with the love of God.
Isn't our God truly wise and wonderful?
.
.
."I AM IRONY MAN.." "Haaaas heeee lost his mind, can he see or is he blind.."
Irony. It's the fact that, my most creative and profound ideas come to me, if they're gonna come, when I'm in bed and I cannot afford to get up and spend time writing them down. My life is filled with these kinds of annoyances.
Like, the time when my body is most deeply relaxed and ready to fall asleep, is a few minutes from when it's time to wake up, or right when it's time to finish my lunch break nap and get back to work. Sounds a little like murphy's law. Murph must have been an irony man. He must have found ten thousand spoons when all he needed was a knife. before you can gain you've got to give , you've got to die in order to live..". Jesus too talked about the paradox of how a seed must die in the ground before it grows into new life. The message we must die to ourselves in order to be born again in Him, most likely was not understood by many who heard Him there, and I fear not really understood by most Christians today.
We do live in a fallen and cursed world though, one of our own doing.
- everything dies. everything comes to an end.
- everything runs out
- everything winds down
- everything wears out
- everything shuts down
- everything diminishes, rusts, collapses, collects dust
- degrades, dulls, shrinks, and fails . This is a natural law . the law thermodnyamics. The law of Entropy.
Foolish men want the glory ascribed to themselves for their discovery of scentific truths that has been hidden away by God for years
(yet our Darwinistic society will fight to defend their notion that things went from a chaos to order, evolving upward.)...talk about irony!
Jesus had a pretty cool way of dealing with this. He said "set not your heart on things of the Earth where moth and rust do corrupt.."
"duuuust in the wiiiiind, all they are is dust in the wind...."
So,...the difference between "Iron man" and "Irony man",...is "Y". why. why does life have to seem so hopeless and futile? I think it has something to do with God's wise plan for our lives here on Earth.
"..He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end." (Eccles. 3:11) God doesn't want us to get too comfortable here. It's not our home, we're just passing through.
Even though it was our willingness as a species to disobey God originally that brought corruption into the world, I think God in His great wisdom uses the corruption of life to bring us back to Him. Our lives are in a way, flawed by design, or , allowed to be flawed.
" For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope," (Rom 8:20)
Here Paul is saying hope is a beautiful thing. God intentionally makes us subject to the emptiness and futility of this word, so that hope might be fostered in us, and in the end, He is rightfully glorified when we see that He is there ready to show amazing grace and inexplicable mercy. And really, if we had everything in the world go just right all the time, what meaning would hope have? No pain no gain. What dont kill ya will make ya stronger.
Paul explained the same thing earlier in Romans 5:3-5, when he said the tribulation of this murphyfied planet teaches us patience, which gives us experience, which engenders hope in us, and he says, that's a good thing. It leads to us having our hearts filled with the love of God.
Isn't our God truly wise and wonderful?
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posted by Shiloh | November 06, 2009
3 Comments:
I enjoyed your post, as always. Job asked why and God never answered the why.
I love how you wrote "God doesn't want us to get to comfortable here because this is not our home." I loved that!
I have to disagree with you on our lives being "in a way, flawed by design." Allowed flaw, yes. Designed it, no. God didn't create us TO sin, but rather with the ABILITY to choose to disobey otherwise our ability to love Him back would not have been a choice.
Unless I missed your point which is more likely the case!
Love ya bro!
thanks so much Larry for being a faithful reader of my little blogs and saying nice things about them all the time. you're a pal.
you're absolutely right, God would never purposely design His children to sin, that's our rebellious choice. the flaw i guess i was referring to, is the disconnect we have with our world and with God, again, not His first choice, but as you say, He allows it, as is evident by that verse Romans 8:20. My poor choice of words may be misleading,i probably should have said we are flawed at birth. or something like that. He said we are "fearfully and wonderfully made", and yet each of us comes into the world with a sin nature. thank you for pointing that out. But i dono, what about the Potter that has the power to create one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?. why would He do that?. Then you have Isaiah 45:7 where it says "I make peace and create evil; I the Lord do all these things". and Jude in verse 4 saying ungodly men were "before of old" ordained to comdemnation. SEE WHAT YOU STARTED!!!... lol. hope you're satisfied.
The master design placed in the copy machine orginally, itself isnt flawed really, but the copies are coming out with spots. Yet He is the one that turns the machine on and churns out the copies.
Praise God that He makes all things work together for our good and makes all things beautiful in His time.
i know , i know, this comment on my blog is a blog in iself.
Hi Mark. What a great blog! Am feeling so fortunate to finally have found/read it! A must-Save for a speech or sermon someday:) yep, that too is a play on words:)!
I especially like your analogy in your response to blogger re; how the original is good, but copies come out spotted somehow. wow. :) Can't wait to read the others, although in reverse order.:)
thank you .
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