Life Unscripted

This world is full of deep pleasures. If they weren’t deep, we wouldn’t pursue them. We wouldn’t drown ourselves in them, nor would they ever consume us. We throw ourselves in front of them like oncoming traffic. However, they’re also shallow because they don’t deeply satisfy, they only temporarily medicate. This is a paradoxical deep. How can something that is so deep be so shallow?

What’s deeper than our own deep pleasures? The deeper question I pose is this: what is deeper than what we PERCEIVE to be deep? This my friends becomes the world of difference. If in our own world of pleasures they are perceived deep and someone more satisfied than us comes along and says they aren’t, we would say that person is mad!

I would venture to say indeed that there is something absolutely deeper than what we perceive. Something more pleasurable than what we can individually possess or acquire on our own. Being satisfied in one person alone all the time without tire, anguish, nor by obligation. Pure pleasure, blissful mystery, with total mental cognition and recollection. Such is only experienced through the avenue of faith. Even this is a paradox. How can something be perceived if it can only be grasped through faith-something that you cannot see? Oh the truth, enshrouded in mystery. I guess you’d wonder how could I claim to know truth right?

What if I were to create a personal work of art that had life in it. Imagine it could speak, feel, think, and work. Imagine it could love and hate, imagine and create, eat and sleep, produce and tear down. Imagine again for just a minute that life you just made decides to totally ignore you and pursue its own affections and desires. It decides it knows what’s best for itself. It doesn’t think twice of consulting it’s creator, not knowing the creator is very present and very knowledgeable of what will truly satisfy that life.

My friends, this life that I speak of is you and I, and the creator is Jesus Christ our God. We mimic identically the fallen state of man caused by man through the universal treason that we call sin. Sin seeks its own good, although that good is not really good. In fact its sick, twisted, and self-seeking. Sin is purposeful in rebelling and neglecting God because it wants to worship an idol, which can be anything if it’s not worshiping God.

This is the paradoxical deep. But you can make it absolute by finding your deepest pleasures in Jesus the Christ, our God and Savior, who offers eternal life through salvation given freely by Gods son, Jesus, the perfect sacrifice. His atonement was and is definite and sufficient for all who repent and return to their creator God and refuse no longer to worship created things, but choose life that is only in Jesus. This is where the deepest pleasure is found. He is our life, light, joy, peace, love — He is our source.

“But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him -
these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” - l Corinthians 2:9,10

“Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls; all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.” - Psalm 42:7

“Can you find out the deep things of God? Can you find out the limit of the Almighty?
It is higher than heaven-what can you do? Deeper than Sheol-what can you know?
Its measure is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.” - Job 11:7-9

“Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”

–C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory