Thinking in difficult directions
The thing about thinking about things like God being in control (see The Mustang 3) is that you can go in directions that you don’t necessarily want to go.
Like… what if you started pondering the two trees in the Garden of Eden. If God didn’t want Adam and Eve eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and did want them eating from the Tree of Life, does that have implications for the way we live? Does that mean that God does not want us to relate to the world in terms of Good and Evil? But isn’t that the way God and the universe is ordered? But wasn’t it different in the Garden? But…
See what I mean?
For several years before I became a vegetarian I actively refused to hear or think about animal welfare in food production. I had an inkling that it would take me in a direction that I didn’t want to go – away from meat. I was right, and eventually it did. But I’m much happier now that I have followed the direction of that thought than I was when I was resisting.
Are you resisting any directions of thinking because you have an inkling those thoughts will require you to change? I challenge you to grab your bible, be brave and go think the difficult thoughts you have been avoiding.
28 August 2008 Jeff Gill
tags: food,
humans,
kingdom of god
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