This is envisoned as a short post, coming off a long, frustrating, but ultimately positive Monday.
I have blogged before about how Libertarian Theology resolves one of the most serious theological questions of all time: If God is all-powerful, how is it that so many bad things happen in the world, and since they do happen, why isn’t God to blame, and thus not the Good and Holy God we know Him to be?
Frustrating though Monday was, I didn’t end the day disgruntled at God for allowing certain things to happen. Here I am, resting in peace and thankfulness that He is God, He is in control, He is all powerful, I have a rock upon which to rest my faith and trust.
And I feel no need to blame Him for anything. I can thank Him for the freedom He gives to all that makes life as messy as it sometimes is, and take responsibility for myself in how I add to or decrease that mess that comes with freedom.
And a thankfulness for the mess. Because many people would clean up the mess, and in so doing remove the freedom, and ultimately, the love that there is in the world. They would limit the love of God, something I will not, do, even theoretically, and of course, something I cannot do, for “God is Love and in Him is no darkness at all”.
At the risk of encouraging some of the mess, let me mention politics. Some people want to use politics to clean up the mess. They want order and neatness (and yes, our God is a God of order), but by doing it through politics they limit freedom, and love, and ultimately, encourage death, the death of the universe.
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
We come to know God best by how he chooses to limit Himself. His limits are not in the Omnis — Ominscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent — but are ethical and moral and personal limits. That is where the idea of limited government came from. We should not count or rest on God to make a decree to solve all issues and problems, stuff us all in straight jackets. He gave us freedom and we need to use it responsibly.
Nor should we count on governments to keep us safe in straight jackets, but keep it out of the way so we can exercise the freedom God has given us, instead of handing that freedom over to a government and thus exchange the freedom of God for a slavery of our own making.
Let the walls come down.
At The Rainbow 