Revisiting Reality

This is a follow up commentary from the LRC Houston post on July 9th entitled, More Than Morals. Welcome if you just came from there, and welcome if you didn’t.
For way too much of my life I was stuck in the church “sin management” game. Week after week I would have to go back and be reminded of my sinful nature, get “cleaned-up“, and sent back out into the world for one more shot at life. The GOOD NEWS was that when I came back next Sunday after a week of sinning, I’d be forgiven again. What a deal! I mean how cool is all of that?

Seriously, it’s way cool; however, there is something even better.

Once you have the “salvation principle” down, it’s time to change our life for good by looking at life differently. The true meaning of repentance is to “go beyond the mind“: in other words, live in the spirit realm. Now that’s where all the fun play things are found.

We must come to the place where we understand that our human condition has far more to offer us than just moral goods- much more. It’s not that we sin because we’re humans (that’s a given), but we sin because we keep looking at life through the same lens. Change the lens and you’ll see more detail, and much further away. You can even adjust the lens (spirit) to see up close and personal too.

Now we’re talking totally cool!

It’s our faulty lens that keep us in bondage.

Socrates said that all evil was due to our ignorance. Plato gave us the cave analysis. Jesus gave us the “born again” metaphor. Nearly every philosopher has basically said the same thing: including the movie the Matrix. We have these “filters” that change our perception of reality. Once you get into adjusting the lens (your religious dumbing down sin management state), life gets really, really exciting!

And scary!

And you’ll lose a lot of friends!

And it just may be you and God for a season!

But, the ride is exhilarating, phenomenal, and sin will do longer be an issue to deal with each Sunday. Life will be too exciting to get lured into such trivial stuff.