Carelessness

"So that you may know the truth about the words you were taught," Luke 1:4.

Why doesn't God do something about the mess we're in? I mean, pick a tragedy, any tragedy. Got it? Yes? Good. Now ask, if God's so loving and strong, why didn't God prevent it? Ever hear people conclude: Either God must not love that much, or God must not be that strong ... is God even there? In our despair, what awake human hasn't thought that? What's God even doing?! The Bible is the book about What's God Doing. What God did in the beginning, in the middle, close to the end right now, and in the end. It's the book about arrogant choices humans make (and then blame God for impotent carelessness). It's a big book, because it's a big mess. So Luke takes us back to the God who had a son, named Adam, the arrogant one.

With a brother or sister today we confess the truth of our arrogance, and we repent. We receive forgiveness given freely, washing, cleansing, empowering. And we give thanks for God's other son, Jesus, the humble one.