Random Ponderings that May be Right or May be Left (i.e. your gonna burn in Hell with all the other liberal heathens!!!...REPENT!)

How great is God? I think that is something we can never fully understand here on this earth. I believe we tend to constrict our understanding of God to the limits of our physical understanding on things. We take the idea that Man is made in the image of God and flip it, creating God in our image of man. But our image of man is limited. Rather we need to imagine God as something much greater than our own physical viewpoint of who we are. Then does this mean that, since Man is created in the image of God, there is much more to us then what we physically define to be man? In away, yes. God is far Greater and far more Amazing than man, and by looking beyond our physical selves, we can get a glimpse of the Greatness in Whose image Man was created. There is more to God than man can understand, and there is more to Man than man can understand because we are made in the image of God. That’s not to say that we ourselves are gods, but that we possess a spiritual side that goes beyond our limited physical definition of man. As God’s creation, we are perfect. But we can’t achieve perfection on our own. Adam and Eve tried it; they took the forbidden fruit believing it would make them like God. We too, try in our own ways to achieve perfection outside of God. But we fail miserably, because the only way to achieve perfection is through God, because only He is perfect.

Thirsty

I remember walking by a pop machine one time. Actually, I've walked by quite a few machines of the dispensing variety (loaded with sugar or otherwise). But this particular machine led rise to an epiphany that has been plaguing my mind since my footsteps traversed beneath the shadow of cold red machine with its ominous product placement, waking me late at night to a cool sweat and a million pseudo-religious thoughts ripping through my mind, numbing my brain. As I recall, I walked by the machine rather nonchalantly. As I passed by however, I glanced over at it. Immediately I began to feel increasingly thirsty; I wanted some coke (no not the illegal stuff). Upon further inspection, I found that it wasn’t the big red coke label on the machine that made me thirsty, nor the hip and moderately sexy looking (at least I think they were, nobody uses ugly people in advertising) young people holding up some pop cans (which is odd because I think this machine sold bottles, not cans). It was the numerous images of tiny water droplets that covered the big red coke label. What I really wanted was cool, clear and pure Dihydrogen monoxide. Instead, my mind had been tricked into wanting what the much more prominent coke label was offering; a false solution to what I really desired.
So to, do we often desire certain other things. Unfortunately, things like wealth, lust and sex (of the let’s screw everybody cause it feels good variety) rear their ugly heads, offering themselves as a solution to our needs. We feel that these are the things that will quench our thirsts and desires. In actuality however, what we really need and desire are happiness, joy and companionship. I wonder where we could get those things...? Anywho, I guess it just seems like the world is offering quick, easy, seemingly good (tasting or otherwise) solutions to the emptyness in our lives... and they make us go pee too (there might be a deep metaphor in there somewhere).