If "abiding" is the way we exhibit trust, then it, rather than morality, is the behavior we should be trying to "do" the most. The irony is that abiding is not something you can "do".
Perhaps abiding is living in the moment - being fully present in the present.
Think about it. If God created time, then he exists outside of time, knows all time, and is present in all time concurrently. (I've been working on my Theology of Time for a few years now, I think many of our misunderstandings about God are from a poor theology of time).
So God exists throughout time - but we don't. We, as human beings, exist only in the moment.
When we live in the past through guilt and regret, we fail to live in the one point in time where we have a chance of meeting God.
When we live in the future with fear and worry, we fail to be present in the one moment where we actually exist and are real to God.
So that is my hope this year - to live in the moment.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
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As a foot note to only existing in the moment: If God is the ultimate singularity that observes us in space time, and the present is where/when he observes us, then we truly are only "real" (or quantumly "realized") in the present.
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