It Doesn't Make Any Sense




 Taken for what they are, many things don’t make any sense.  Custom, habit, and consistent use, and exposure have given many traditions a reality they do not possess-a sort of illusion of reality.  There is so much not really understood but taken for reality and knowledge left wanting about something we take for granted daily.  For instance, we take the ability to love for granted.  We can care deeply about the welfare of someone besides ourselves.  That is quite unnatural and when you think about that, it doesn’t make any sense.  Why should we care?  Their pain is not our pain.  Why should we care about someone else’s pain?  Why does a beautiful sight stir us so?  We travel all over the world to see sights.  Why?  We can’t eat it, drink it, or live there.  Why should we care?

I propose that the ability to deeply love, appreciate, and care so much about things is a gift from God coming as part of the package of an intimate relationship with Him.  “His ways are past finding out,”  but they are not beyond emulation.  Love as God loves.




 

  

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