by Stephen Morris
The fundamental source of human anguish is percieving the distance between The Reality and the reality of brokenness that pervades our world.
'The Reality' is our consciousness of the Kingdom of God, which Jesus tells us is within. We perceive in our own hearts a mysterious longing; sometimes experienced as an unrestriced love, or sometimes as a burning desire to reach beyond ourselves.
In faith, this is also experienced as the belief that life is beautiful, intrinsically valuable, as it is endowed with purpose by our Loving Creator. Our Creator who will, in the End, call his children home and wipe away every tear.
However, The Reality is obscured by the brokenness, the presence of sin in our world like a veil darkening a great light -- it is in us and around us. It blemishes our desire, tests our faith, and corrodes the very fabric of human relations.
Our task cannot be the obliteration of sin from this earth. Men have tried this only to have encountered unfathomable evils. We are talking about a brokenness beyond human repair.
Ultimately, the healing is God's affair; but our great charge is to be His instruments. In faith, we are to remain receptive to this calling, attuning our lives to this higher Reality. The spiritual life is a dedication to letting this light shine from us into the world, healing all that it touches.
None of this will erase the anguish, but it will prepare us for He who will. Knowing this deeply in faith, and experiencing not the finality of His love but a foretaste, will shepherd us through this passing storm.
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