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There is an old
Yiddish saying:
If God lived on
earth, they would break His windows.
I wonder if the
‘they’ of the saying should really read ‘we’?
For, somewhere deep
down, we all have issues with God.
With the way He
runs this world.
With the way He
allows nonsensical suffering, tolerates evil, puts up with the hypocrites.
We are like frustrated children who think we
would do a much better job of parenting. We are infuriated with His timing. We question His love or
power or both.
Some of us are
angry. Some of us are resentful. Some of
us have simply given up.
The appearance
of God on earth proved the general truth of the Yiddish proverb. Except in reality it was worse. Much worse than 'just' breaking windows or tearing down and burning His house.
And, much more personal.
Nothing God does is anything but personal.
Because of that, from the very
beginning of His earthly life, some sought Him out to worship Him while others
sought Him out to kill Him.
This continued
to be a recurring pattern throughout His earthly life. And continues all the way to the
end.
He
was in the world,
the world was there through Him,
and yet the world didn't even notice.
He
came to His own people,
but they didn't want Him.
But
whoever did want Him,
who believed He was who He claimed and would do what He said, He
made to be their true selves,
their child-of-God selves.
These
are the God-begotten,
not blood-begotten,
not flesh-begotten,
not sex-begotten. John 1:10-13
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