Three pillars generally lay under our world: self-reliance, familial dedication, and friend loyalty-all of which are entirely human and thus, bear the inevitability to falter, establishing one of the definable characteristics of our mortality: failure. To what measure can be given? Weakness at its best and strength at its worst as compared to and put in place of the fulfilling component for the insurmountable needs that arise in all of us: meaning, value, and identity.
In these pillars, we often place all hope and invest our faith-two of our greatest commodities that should be reserved wholly for definition, valuation, and restoration.
Yet, we give and take from the limited and thirst more..hunger more..and wonder why disappointment and pain forever find and unrelentingly plague us.
Why would we assume otherwise if our supports crumble and become more than a portion of the weight-tethers pulling away from peace and for some, costly proponents of degradation?
How? When confidence becomes loathing...when resentment among family members forms..and when betrayal ends friendships.
We expect more from ourselves and others than what is within the capacity of humanity.
No one-individual or group-is capable to meet our three, shall i call them, spiritual needs....unless they themselves have no need-perfection in character...purity in intention...power for provision without exception.
The reason for hope..
The supplier of faith...
The form of love-love being the greatest of our three universal commodities to be given freely, selflessly, and sacrificially.
In the beginning, God, with all knowledge, wisdom, and power, spoke light, spoke time, spoke existence....
God..not the abstract, inanimate, or organic.
In nature, truth and love..
In morality, righteous and just..
In personality, consistent and complex.
And what of man?
The will of the Father in the image of formation and glory for reflection-meaning...
The presence of the Son from the creation to sacrifice unto salvation-value...
The dwelling of the Spirit within and without to convict..to fill..to sanctify in the likeness of Christ-identity.
Only one pillar is needed to hold up our world, to place our hope, and invest our faith.
Only one pillar eternally fixed, piercing the hearts and minds of men.
Out of it an overflow of life...
Where justice and love converge...
Below it, mercy...
Within it, grace...
In the shadow of it, a call...
In the light of it, reception...
That pillar is the Cross of Jesus Christ.
Behold, God is able...willing...waiting.