Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Stars and Grass.

So, I looked up a quote that caught my attention earlier this week, mainly because of it's wording. Turns out it's actually a piece of writing taken out of an essay by a man named Thomas Carlyle. The essay focuses on what he calls "hero worship." The quote itself is extending the idea that for centuries man has wondered on the earth constantly looking for something to worship and look up to as a guide, even at some point looking to the stars themselves for validation. It's interesting because what he says next (being the said quote) "To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes" is beautiful though Christian eyes but absolutely tragic through his own. He fell away from his Calvinistic beliefs at a very young age due to legalism, and spent the rest of his life trying to logically explain away his faith and gift of vision for God's Holy things.

I feel as though there's an incredible weight and realization through his words about how thorough God is in His revelation to mankind. However, all Thomas ever saw was how it proved his own philosophical views about human nature, disproving as far as His mind saw, I'm sure, that there was ever a need for God in the first place. Through the eyes and light of Christ man's words are thankfully not his own, for through his own eternity is an impossibility. Very interesting.

Missy.
O LORD, you have searched her and you know her. You know when she sits and when she rises; you perceive her thoughts from afar. You discern her going out and her lying down; you are familiar with all her ways. Before a word is on her tongue you know it completely, O LORD. You hem her in—behind and before; you have laid your hand upon her. Psalm 139:1-5

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