"Are you Rapture Ready?"
"Heaven or Hell- it's your choice"
"The Holy Book is the only way to Heaven"
and so on.
and so on.
It kind of disturbed me. My first thought was "who the heck is rapture ready anyway?" but then I thought about how God is being displayed on these signs. Or the lack of him being displayed. On these signs, Christianity is only about getting to Heaven. It's about numbers and black-and-white situations, about having it all together to recieve God.
I certainly don't feel ready to recieve God in all his glory. I can barely wrap my mind around the billions of stars, the galaxies that stretch lightyears away, giving light from stars that have died thousands of years ago...and thats just one of the things God made. This same God who created amino acids and proteins and DNA and blood cells that work together flawlessly everyday, with viruses and bacteria that we are still learning about and trying to classify. If there is one thing I can understand from God's glory, is that it never ends. There is always more that he made, more that I can't understand but can still enjoy trying.
I'm not sure what I wish those signs could be replaced with. Maybe instead of putting God into the Heaven or Hell checkboxes, we should just show off his glory.
2 comments:
Jo, if you get a chance, read the book "Heaven is Not my Home."
Were most of those signs in Northwest Iowa?!
yes yes I know. How terrible I am being. So much so. Isn't there just so much to write, and so few pixels to manipulate? China needs to have a say, as does this moving into a new apartment. But I might want to adapt them into some kind of short story for scholarship purposes, and blogging them would negate their ability to be entered. So poo. But I will try, if not my hardest, than something so similar it will impossible to tell the difference.
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