Sunday, February 12, 2012

Redemptive Close Encounters

Deuteronomy 12-15
Both of my sons are artists and both have chosen to work in the areas of redemption.  One works with it as a concept and one works with redeemed, recycled materials.  That is what these chapters, the whole Bible and God are all about.  “…and the Lord your God redeemed you.” 15:15. 

My wife and I watched “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” last night.   It’s about a man who has an encounter with extraterrestrials, which forever changes his life.  It’s a good, simple metaphor for the God story, the story of redemption.  It is why most of our great books, movies, histories and legends all revolve around that theme.  It’s the original theme.  God made a perfect world and perfect humans.  God loved us and made us free.  We got ourselves in trouble.  Because God loves us, He offers us redemption out of our trouble.  “For God so loved the world…”  John 3:16.  I love the Bible.  It’s the story of the original close encounter of the First Kind.

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