Communicating Through Imperfection

Mankind's greed and lust for power has purposely hidden or changed God's message to us.

Why would God allow his message to be treated in this way? This is a question that has burned in me for a long time.

Why would a sovereign God let his message become corrupted and misused? If his message to us is of utmost importance, and he can see that it is being miscommunicated, why doesn't he intervene to protect it?

The answer is right under our collective noses! We have always reminded each other that we are the only Bible that some people will ever see. Another way of saying this is that we are God's voice to the world. In us is the word, and we are the word of God to the world! But are we, yet, perfect? No. So how can something imperfect reflect or project something perfect? We never will be able to perfectly portray God to others, just as the Bible falls short of fully explaining or portraying God. It will never be perfect in this life. We will never fully understand all of creation, let alone coming even close to understanding what or who created it all!

Man's greed and lust for power have warped God's message in order to create a power structure that is really an anti-church, existing alongside the true church. These are the weeds that have been sown amongst the real crop.

God knows this, and lets it happen. Why? How could this be good? What can possibly be his strategy?

I believe it is because God has never been one to hide from us the consequences of greed and lust. With very few exceptions, every individual in the Bible has all their laundry on display, so-to-speak. Their defeats are right next to their triumphs. Consider these lessons from the Bible as object lessons complete with visual aids, complete examples from a full spectrum view.

And our lives are a living continuation of these examples, to others!

God trusts us to discern for ourselves, what we want to do, which way we will go.

Despite how greed and lust for power have warped God's message, it is still discoverable and knowable, and truly a gospel of good news to all.