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Archive for April, 2008
I don’t read this blog, but a friend of mine does and this article was up. I have thoughts, but I don’t really want to say them yet.
means “witness” in hebrew.
sigh…if I could only live up to the name.
“I’ll bring you more than a song, for a song in itself is not what you have required…You search much deeper within, through the way things appear. You’re looking into my heart. I’m coming back…”
- M.R.
Hamlet speaks to the revelation of God
Published April 11, 2008 Devotional Flavor , fresh , theology 3 Comments(this is for my dear friend steve tu, who shares the same love as I do for the knicks and crannies of God’s greatness)
An excerpt from Tim Keller’s talk at Google:
“C.S. Lewis writes an interesting article. In 1961, Some of you might know that the Russians were the first country to send somebody into space. Yuri Gagarin, and he came back and a few months later the premiere of the Soviet Union Kruscheve was agiving a speech and he was talking about atheism and said we sent somebody to heaven and he came back and he didn’t see God anywhere. CS lewis wrote an article an interestingly enough he said, ‘If there is a God who created the world and created us, you don’t relate to God the way a person in the first story relates to a man in the second story. Rather you would relate to God the way hamlet relates to Shakespeare. You see if Hamlet wants to prove there is a Shakespeare, he’s not going to be able to do that in a lab nor is he going to be able to find shakespeare by going up into the stage. The only way he’s going to know anything about shakepeare is if shakespeare writes something about himself into the play. And what that would mean is if there is a Creator God, there is probably evidence, but the idea that you can’t believe in him until someone proves him is actually a faith leap about the existence and nature of God before you know he is there.’”
Anyways. The point I want to highlight is that we who call ourselves believers of God, are all like hamlet walking around in this providential quilt called reality believing in the power of the pen that writes tommorow. But what’s more amazing, is that God out of love and grace has written himself in. The name of the Character is Jesus.
Groundhog day is essentially a movie about a man who gets trapped in the same day. That is, he lives the same day over and over again. It’s frustrating for him at first but then he learns to use it to his advantage to learn and perfect all sorts of sweet skills.
But what if that happened to you? What would you do? What sorts of talents would you set out to claim?
My point is simple. You don’t have to imagine it. Life already is Groundhog Day. The only difference from the film is you have to take responsibility for your actions and your body ages a bit. But hey, that’s a small price to pay for the perks. The way I see it, everyday you wake up is still another day to get it right. If you aint dead, your turn is still in play.
why don’t you hire yourself?
but the sun is coming out inside
