April 21, 2010
Eyjafjallajokull
I’ve been watching the televised eruption of Iceland’s volcano…the name of which no TV reporter can pronounce (see above). It’s easy to summon up all kinds of stories to go along with the visuals of smoke and ash that we are seeing. There’s Sodom and Gomorrah, Mount Sinai, the Abyss and Babylon, just to name a few. It’s interesting to note how in God’s book smoke can in one instance represent something worshipful and in another be a sign of destruction.
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Gail;
-----Smoke is a physical object. Like all physical objects, its use can involve good or evil. TV is often berated as a tool of Satan. But in truth, it is also a tool of the Lord. Just like the binding of a ream of paper into a book can disseminate the fraud and deceit of the Devil or the Words of God, objects are simply tools. The purpose to which a tool is used carries the worship or the destruction. “You can not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can not partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.” (I Cor 10:20) If either worship or destruction were about the cup and table themselves, then neither could be spoken of as serving both the Lord and demons. It is what the cup contains and the table bears up that serves worship or destruction.
-----The Amish miss this point sorely. For them, technology can serve no simplicity. But it is the use to which technology is given that complicates or simplifies. For that matter, the flaking of flint into scrapers and the weaving of fibers into thread is technology. So are houses, lanterns, carriages, tableware, and shovels. I am sure it would be simpler to plow a field with a tractor, even a small used one, than with an ox and, well, a plow which is also technology. And so do Christian Scientists miss the point. Properly used drugs and medicines are a great boon to man, as prayer and faith are even a greater boon. But the one no more precludes the other than the hand precludes the shovel handle. I call such attention focused upon objects “thinginess”. And attention given to thinginess is attention diverted from the Lord. As for that matter, even destruction is a tool, and the Lord will soon have some of it to do Himself.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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