history repeating and bla bla bla

we say we need to know our history. its important to know where we came from. what things from the past affect the way we are today. that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. but do we.

mistakes like… genocide. war. recession?



The holocaust happened
we said never again

then

Rwanda happened
we said never again

then Darfur
happened

china
Russia

we got greed in our bones and running through our blood.

we took more than we can make

we spent more then we could earn

the list goes on, so do we learn? do things change?

or do we indeed repeat.

why don’t things change?

why does it take so long for us to recognize that we are repeating history.

why are we so dense we don’t see that when people are killing masses of innocent people. WE NEED TO HELP.

do we look at the world as a place we share. that we live as neighbors. or do we live as individualistic countries. that should survive on our own.

but…
if we do decide to interfere in other countries do we choose violence? what does that look like? as Christians what does that look like? how DO we intervene. how do we intervene if we are part of the reason the disaster happens?

watching v for vendetta it explodes with “world view”

“would you really want to know” V says when asked for the truth.

I think its true would we really want to know? because when we know truth about why horrific things happen, usually we see a finger pointing right back at us.
“if your looking for the guilty, you need to only look into the mirror”

history. has lessons to teach us.

about ignorance.

about looking inwardly to see, how are we part of the problem.

challenge ourselves to think. what would we really do in those situations.

what would we stand for when push comes to shove.

like Evey experiences in V for Vendetta- when V keeps her imprisoned and let her live in a pretend reality . that she was captive. that she was going to die. it tested her. to what she would really do. what she feared most she had to face. and it pushed her to act in extreme conditions. it made her realize, what she used to refuse to face, what she pretended not to see, was the what she truly believed.

so what do we believe. how are we going to take action. what are the good things from history. and what are the things that will burn into our memories- if only to remind us- what we are truly capable of.

bad and good.

heres another one for you

where does evil come from?

was their evil existing in heaven? otherwise how did satan fall.

is evil a choice?

did God create evil?

but he couldnt have because that doesnt come from him?

so where did it come from if he always existed and is creator of all things?

my world. our world. Gods world. world world.

Let me unravel my scrabbled brain. Or at least a part.
This past week so many things splattered through my brain. However, one thing I realized is. I know nothing of worth except what God chooses to reveal to me. Because knowledge is empty without wisdom, wisdom is only from God.

For a while now it has been stirred within me that the way "Christians" see missions is some what skewed.

i feel like often we say "oh we are bringing God to the needy, to the lost, to the hungry" etc.
but God is the creator.
we are the created.

im pretty sure we are not bringing him anywhere he is already there.

Moreover, in the same breath, what is becoming increasingly apparent to me, is that if God is truth, and he is everywhere, then our job is not to "bring" him anywhere but to point him out amongst the congestion of sin and deceit in the world.

i remember sitting on a balcony in Egypt listening to the call of prayer ring out over the land and thinking of the devotion that the Muslims have to pray 5 times a day. What if we as Christians lived our prayer life out like that. What would that look like?

sure, they don’t have everything right. However, in reality do we as Christians?

but it made me think how much we can learn from other religions. How each of us posses some of the truth of God. And how we can see glimpses of his character and truth in others- even if they do bow down to other gods.


Coming on the same level, learning the cultures of the people we are approaching, is so important. The bible is full of prophets who were examples of this. Paul, in Acts uses the ‘unknown god’ to speak of the one true God is a perfect example.

Sometimes I think the most powerful thing we can do. Is sit. Shut our mouths. Open our eyes. Listen. Learn.

To seek the truth, and point it out.

To see God.
Where we thought we never would.