January 07, 2011
Super Nova
A Super Nova exploded 240 million years ago and the visual light spectrum just now reached earth. I’m struck by God taking millions of years to reveal His handiwork and the ‘a-ha’ that mankind gets with the revelation. I find it similar to reading the Bible for years and then suddenly a passage of Scripture jumps off the page when the Spirit opens my eyes to a Scriptural Super Nova of understanding.
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Gail;
-----You have again dipped into your endless pool of useful analogies. The Super Nova is a fascinating event. A star begins its life fusing hydrogen into helium (a first generation star.) This generates energy. The star’s massive gravity counters the incredible energy released by the fusion, so it does not just fly apart in a huge explosion. When most of the hydrogen has fused into helium, the energy release drops, gravity overcomes, and the star collapses somewhat until the helium begins fusing. Once again, its energy release counters the gravitational squeeze, and the star stabilizes. It then proceeds through several similar stages of fusion into different elements, each in succession, until its core becomes iron. But now, something amazing happens. The nuclear reaction of iron consumes energy rather than releasing it. Yet, gravity continues to supply energy. Both processes scream, “COLLAPSE!” And it collapses into a super-packed ball of neutrons, or if the star was massive enough, a black hole. A tremendous shock wave reverberates, throwing the outer layers of the star into space - a Super Nova.
-----We have within us two forces resisting a Scripture’s penetrating gravity - lack of knowledge and a little disobedience. They interplay, for sure, but those subtleties are irrelevant to the usefulness of your analogy. Some new insights are not received because there just are no concepts in our knowledge relating to them. Eventually, after learning more concepts from other Scriptures, other information, or from mere life experiences, there develops in our knowledge a hole attracting to the weight of that new insight, a question begging for its answer. Like a key, in one moment that Scripture opens the door to many unanswered questions, all shaped for it as an answer. Those newly answered questions then intertwine into a new concept bursting from our minds.
-----As for disobedience, it lies deeper and more subtle. When I examine the systemic momentum behind the bad habits which dog me, I always seem to find some form of fear. It is a protective force, for sure. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. But it is also carcinogenic to the soul when not tied to the Lord. It turns the self into a goal and knowledge into questions, and deconstructs concepts by muddling up their intertwining. Furthermore, it destroys the incubation of new concepts by sheathing curiosities with doubt and breeding warfare amongst unanswered questions. Some souls it consumes. In most it just meanders about, unable to destroy everything, but wreaking what damage it can. Near to the tips of its roots is the spirit, and in us who know the Lord, combined with it is the Holy Spirit. Here, the resistant pressures of a disobedience turns into a Scripture-attracting force when the Spirit ties a fear to the Lord. The Word of God comes penetrating in, dividing the soul and the spirit, and reverberates back out through the meandering path of thoughts and intentions abandoned by that fear, bursting into actions of glory to God.
-----The Super Nova of understanding is to me like a piece of Christmas divinity. You don’t always get one, but when you do, as its flavor soaks into your body, all you can do is close your eyes in thank-filled ecstasy and go, “WOW!”
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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