A Divne Scandal (page 8)

So I pulled the "I'm Being a Typical Christian" card on you yesterday. Not to paint you, the reader, as dumbfounded all of the time, but you're allowed to say, "huh?" very inquisitively in response to my admitting the card trick.

Being plain about it, here's what I did: I clued you in on this whole Divine Scandal idea I've got going on, but not in the way I originally intended. I took this whole faithfulness gig and immediately applied it to the age old guilt trip of sin and evil and wrongdoing. Because, obviously, those three things amongst a plethora of other negativities, which bring the view of humankind down to the likes of dirt, are those normally associated with faithfulness.

As true as that might be, I haven't once alluded to this sort of faithfulness symbioses which might occur in our life as often as we open our mouth to take a deep breath. The faithfulness I have overtly alluded to - and yes, that is an oxymoron, but you can't tell me that doesn't sound much better than just saying, "I have been getting at" - is a faithfulness that is constantly occurring even in our greatest moment of ignorance. And it is a faithfulness that upon our acknowledgement - well, acknowledgement isn't really the correct word for this, is it? Seems like that would imply we know it's happening and then one day we finally accept it's existence by actually waving a hand to say "hi," you know? When in fact it is a faithfulness that we can't just pass by like that old school mate we see on the street walking toward us, so we freak out inside doing everything we can to avert our eyes from seeing him like we're playing stupid of the fact that once we were friends, but now ten years later it's just a bit awkward to talk with one another. In this way, "acknowledgement" is the incorrect word.

So it is a faithfulness that upon our realization, upon our eyes being opened, upon our perfect connection with the Divine if even for a short moment, sweeps us away from the reality we were just in. And it proceeds to take us to a place that can only be regarded as an oasis from all the worldly distractions we live in 99% of the time.

Maybe I'm making too much fluff of this and over exaggerating with the 99% stat. I don't know. You tell me. But I can only say for myself that when I am on the same plain with God, nothing else can ruin that moment for me. Really, because I have no care for anything, but resting with my Heavenly Father for however long it may last. And that is a faithfulness occurring as an oasis from life's qualms. And that is an oasis present even among spiritual deserts, deserts that I may have formed by my lack for reading the Good News, or throwing on some hymns to worship to or any form of worship for that matter.

The faithfulness I have discovered lately is a faithfulness ever-occuring even in my states of unfaithfulness. And this unfaithfulness is not regarding sin on my part or any negativity as in Hell, Fire & Brimstone. It is an unfaithfulness regarding me going about life claiming Jesus as my Savior and living oblivious to His existence in that life.

And yet still with nothing to compare this consistency to, He remains faithful.

And that is the Divine Scandal I have been writing to you about.