Mister Rogers, one of the most well-known people to ever grace the television screen, says this about the world: "Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated."
For a man who made a career of entertaining and teaching simple life truths to children, this is such a great way to describe a simple but profound truth. With the widening spread of the internet and the growing-by-the-moment access to the global network of the world's information, the person is becoming less personal and ever more shallow.
This being a true assessment of the state of the world, it is essential to note that when the world continually seems like a swirling whirlwind of data and stuff that spins vertiginously like a billowing tornado that sweeps away humanity into meaninglessness, reality, in its utterly truest sense, stems from a different source altogether: God.
The Holy Lord Almighty, the giver of life and source of all wisdom, is ultimate reality. Thus, ultimate truth and ultimate reality stem from God. And, apart from God, reality is but a vale, a mist compared to the solidity and certainty of God Himself. Because of this basic and fundamental truth, any attempt by the world at large to make or create any semblance of reality outside of God's is counterfeit and, quite frankly, sin.
As Christians, we need to be on guard against the potential snares of the world which attempt to replace the reality and truth of God with forgeries. The world is an ocean of information that is an inch deep, while the truth of God is infinitely vast and infinitely deep. This, God, should always be the truth that we rely upon as it is, ultimately, the truth. Not a truth but the truth. Let us then always keep this at the center, always.
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