We’ve been trying all morning to post the whole cover of His Mercy Endureth Forever, and it just ain’t workin’.
Meanwhile, yesterday’s blog had a two-year low in viewership. I don’t know about these past several days. Ian Malcolm in the Jurassic Park books would probably be able to explain it in terms of Chaos Theory, but that’d be perfectly good science wasted on me.
I have no idea how I’m going to crank out a Newswithviews article this week. I have doctor visits Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I’m not even sure I’ll be able to keep this blog afloat.
Maybe if I go outside and have a cigar, inspiration will descend on me.
I’ve been thinking about this for days. Maybe it’ll grow into a Newswithviews column. Maybe your comments will inspire me. Pitch in, everybody.
When Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park says “Boy, do I hate being right all the time,” he’s talking about his repeated warnings that the dinosaur park is going to fail spectacularly–and of course he’s right. Everything goes wrong.
And of course the park’s creators are totally flabbergasted because they were 100% sure they had everything, and I do mean everything, totally under control. In fact they had nothing under control.
As Christians we’re expected to know that God is in control of His creation. We’re lucky if we can control ourselves for five minutes, never mind managing the world.
But the delusion of this age is the illusion of control, the old con game Satan ran on Eve, “Ye shall be as gods.” In fact, think the fat-heads who believe this, they’d better be as gods because the real God does not exist, it’s all up to them to keep the planet spinning, etc. All up to them! And these are people who’d be hard-put to organize a game of hopscotch.
Rather than suffer the shock of coming to grips with their limitations, control freaks just think bigger and bigger. A lousy dinosaur park? Peanuts! They’re after global government. They aspire to micro-manage the climate. They’ll do all those things God should’ve done, but couldn’t–end war, end poverty, no more disease, everybody equal, free college education, blah-blah.
