Solomon's Window: We've Made a Mess of Things

Because a thing is good enough for us, or for an age, or for a nation, is not sufficient to make it the truth. It may be a statement that will do for a time, but unless we have been dumped down on to the basis of things, our experience is of no avail as a revelation of the foundation of life.

When we deal with great thinkers like Solomon or Shakespeare we get to the truth of things; we do not get the truth through experience. 

Most of us do not think.  We live healthy ordinary lives and don’t bother about thinking at all. But when an upheaval comes from underneath proving that the basis of things is not rational, we find the value of the Bible attitude, which is that the basis of things is tragic and not rational. 

The covid pandemic and political storm have proven that the Bible is right. We have to live based on our relationship to God in the actual condition of things as they are.

“The end explains,” not “The end justifies the means”—that is never right. If you choose to live in the BLM or Critical Race Theory or political world, the end will explain that you have made a mess of things. 

If you live morally, the end will explain that you have lived morally. 

- Commonplaces adaptation from Oswald Chambers' The Shade of His Hand