May 14, 2008
Quasi
Since I’m now in the political arena I’m learning a whole new vocabulary. Right now I’m struggling to wrap my head around quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative. According to Webster’s, Quasi is an adjective which means, “having some resemblance usually by possession of certain attributes.” I think my new word also fits in the religious arena. Cults become quasi-churches, false prophets are quasi-prophets and Satan is a quasi-Christ. And I finally know what to call all those really good and kind people who refuse to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior…quasi-Christians.
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Gail;
-----I think you have come to understand what I accept as one of the most fundamental and important principles for success and survival in this life: nothing is perfect and complete, everything is broken and flawed. Paul said of it, “For the creation was subjected to frustration…bondage to decay.” (Rom 8:20-21). No matter how perfect anything appears to be, given an appropriate amount of scrutiny, some flaw will always be found, if not on the visible level, then within the molecular - or even atomic - level. This is not to say that perfection does not exist. It does exist where God and our Christ are. In fact, flawlessness is more the order of the day there as imperfection is here. And as if our environment of imperfection was not bad enough, on top of it is an even greater serving of misperception in our ability to understand and know things accurately. Paul also addressed that fact, “Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror…Now I know in part…” (I Cor 13:12), and, “The man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he ought to know.” (I Cor 8:2). This all simply calls for humility.
-----But it does not call for defeat. If after a good bath every cell and scrap of matter that were properly and genetically a part of the body were removed, one’s complete likeness would remain visible because of all the bacteria and remaining grunge more deeply embedded. But thank God, we take baths anyway. We have all come to learn so well the principle of acceptability that we often do not realize it is still in play regarding situations and issues we expect to be perfect. In this light, everything is quasi. I admit first and most assuredly that my own godliness is quasi.
-----Yet this does not make me queasy. Jesus our Christ has delivered upon us a cover of righteousness and perfection that is not a part of our broken environment. It is extended to us from His perfect environment. And although it can not remove the quasi-ness from our being, it strengthens us to be able to free ourselves from the need to find perfection where there is no perfection so that we may simply, for the time being, behold and behave acceptably.
Love,
Steve Corey
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