August 13, 2010
Master Plan
In planning for the future, local government uses a master plan to project what will be needed in 20-30 years. We have master plans for the city in general, as well as for the sewer and the river corridor. A colleague recently pointed out that his metro-community has a 20-year jail master plan, which will include four more jail buildings on top of the 1,500 new beds that were just built. “My God,” he said, “we are planning jails for kids who aren’t even born yet.” My friend’s vision to turn the situation around and avoid the need for jail beds is to invest in crime prevention alternatives. Even as believers we sometimes try to incorporate our vision to the Master’s Plan… I think we need to be reminded that His plan isn’t just for the present day, but also for kids who aren’t even born yet.
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Gail;
-----Even God has a jail planned for kids that aren’t born yet. It is a tough thought to swallow, but if Jesus said the way that leads to destruction is broad, and many travel it, then I believe it. That a jail would at all be constructed by God for any soul is heartbreaking when consideration is limited to that soul. But consideration isn’t so limited. In fact, consideration is so much more for those who acknowledge the righteousness and justice of God and for the conditions of love, joy, and participation in one another which He provides, that the doom and despair of the jail pale to zero in comparison.
-----Our visions are tiny because our minds are minuscule. They see little further than how His Master Plan relates to the situations we have at hand. We see the need for Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection being man’s salvation from the permanence of his own death. But we fail to broaden our perspectives enough to realize there was once a time before when even Lucifer sinned, a time so perfect that there was not an inkling of what sin was in any mind except maybe God’s. Lucifer brought the concept of disagreeing with God into existence. And once in existence, it was not to go away either quietly or permanently. Quite to the contrary, it was there to stay, there to grow, there to spread throughout God’s perfect place of loving, joyful, participating creatures until it intertwined everything like thickets and noxious binder-weed. Unless it is defeated and jailed.
-----Satan’s act of fathering deceit was the making of self to be the locus of purpose instead of holding to God as such locus. Regardless of the purpose’s remaining to be that of doing perfect righteousness, justice, peace, love, joy, and participation, if it’s locus is moved from God to the self, purpose is falsified because God is not only the Author of these things, He is these things; nothing else can be these things; everything can only participate in them, for God is them. Satan’s simple elevation of self called for a Master Plan.
-----Jesus Christ is our Savior. But His work saves not only us from this imperfect and tragically disastrous world of sin and death. It also saves from the thickets and binder-weed the place of all creatures who desire God. Jesus’ self giving life trumped Satan’s self seeking moment. His death purchased all men and women who seek also to escape this selfish tarnish. His resurrection demonstrated the right and power given Him because He chose to be subjected to sin without sinning. And His rightful use of the power will jail all imperfection into a place of its own outside perfection’s existence. Then all God’s creatures, man and angel, can perfectly participate in the love and joy of God. A Masterful Plan.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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