WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE, IT IS

When all is said and done it’s all said and done; and yet we keep on saying and doing over and over again.  There is an energy to life, a flow, and a rhythm.  When that energy is allowed to flow unhindered it takes life along with it.  God created a natural flow and rhythm to all creation.  To everything there is a season, a movement, a birth, growth, death rhythm.  Left alone and unMANipulated it is a fully functioning, beautifully natural world.  Disrupted and controlled it becomes dysfunctional to its original intention. 

God gave us humans the responsibility of caring for His finished handiwork, not revising His creation.  We have ruined what was given to us to care for, to attend to, to live with, and enjoy.  We recreated a world in our own image.

We say we want diversity but we work hard at standardizing and making everything and everyone the same.  We have a pride in making ourselves into a global community, being aware and concerned about the plight of people in far away places in every corner of the world; but often we don’t even know the plight of people who live right next door to us, or in our neighborhood community.  We say everyone is special and have done away with the “special needs” identities by mainstreaming them, leaving those who truly have needs to fend for themselves.  We say everything is sacred and manufacture gods in our own image, leaving nothing or no one higher to look up to for guidance or help.  We have revised life as God created it and will end up doing what God promised He would never do again; destroy it.  (Genesis 9:21, 22)

While people are down here on earth doing our revisions of God and of Life, doing what we think is right, God is still God, still in control.  God is true to His nature and is patiently watching and waiting; giving everyone the opportunity to come to the end of ourselves, put away our foolish ways, giving everyone the opportunity to receive His grace freely and His love abundantly.  But there will come an end and He will speak and act.

“He who sits in the heavens laughs; 

He will speak to them in His wrath,

And terrify them in His fury, saying, 

“As for me, I have set my King

On Zion, my holy hill.”  (Psalm 2:4-6)

In God’s Story He is the victor; in God’s Story there is a beginning and there is an end, the Alpha and Omega; in God’s Story there will be a new heaven and a new earth, not because of a revision by man but because it is God’s Story and has been from the beginning.

There is a cry for peace and justice in the world today.  At some point in time God true peace and justice will come; not as portrayed in man’s revised story but as it was in the beginning and shall be in the end of God’s Original Story; unrevised, unedited, and unadulterated.  In the beginning was the Word, and that Word will stand and will accomplish all that God purposed it to accomplish.  (Isaiah 46:8-11) 

When all is said and done, it’s all said and done.

Until that day the gates of the New Jerusalem are open; until that day God draws people out of love, not fear; until that day the Spirit says, “Come”.