{"id":1152,"date":"2012-05-18T21:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T02:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bottlerockettheology.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2012-05-18T21:11:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T02:11:51","slug":"hiding-behind-the-trees-lost-and-dont-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Hiding behind the trees, lost and don\u2019t know it …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Excerpt from Beyond Pretend: A Sheep\u2019s Guide to the Universe! by David Lee Scott, pp. 31-34.\u00a0Copyright Notices\u00a0\u00a9 2010 by David Lee Scott. All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

LOST
\n<\/strong>We are lost. Hiding behind the trees, lost and don\u2019t know it, still hiding. Still stupid. And we don\u2019t want to know where we are.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s think through this for a minute. Why do people fight off attempts by others to help them see their standing before God? A person would think that the logical thing is that a lost person would want directions – he or she would want to be found. But depravity is not logical.<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t logical to listen to the snake, no matter how beautiful and clever, rather than listen to God. Forget logic. We humans are desire-driven, and that is dangerous, no, deadly, if our desires are not found in God.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The land of wishful thinking …<\/strong>
\nSo I don\u2019t think it is a stretch to say that we don\u2019t want to know where we are. And if we don\u2019t know where we are, all we have is wishful thinking when it comes to where we are going. We live in a land of wishful thinking, and wishful thinking, the dangerous territory of our flawed minds, is different than hope.<\/strong> Our build, our blue print for the future, is presumed upon a false schematic, overlooking the design and engineering flaws inherent in each of us, hard wiring anomalies resulting from denial and rebellion.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re messed up, and we kind of know it, but we still insist on writing the story ourselves.<\/p>\n

The myth of the better place …
\n<\/strong>Doesn\u2019t this reflect the thoughts of the average person concerning \u201cwhat comes next?\u201d Listen to the person at the funeral of our friend or family member. \u201cWell, she\u2019s in a better place now.\u201d [I hope.] Could you hear the \u201cI hope?\u201d They didn\u2019t say it; it wasn\u2019t audible, but it was very real. They don\u2019t say I hope, but they wishfully hope it to be true because that is what they are wishing for when they die – a better place. But don\u2019t you dare try to get them to think about \u201cit\u201d now.<\/strong> \u201cIt\u201d as in, where they actually are now, separated from God, lost, hiding, God\u2019s enemy, and where this means they will be later … and it\u2019s not a better place.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you dare try to get them to leave the land of wishful thinking.<\/strong>
\nDon\u2019t you try to get them to \u201clook under the hood\u201d and check the wiring. Don\u2019t you dare try to warn them about hell and the consequences of denying reality and remaining lost. Let them enjoy the sunshine of a fool\u2019s autonomy, let them love what they do away from the light, let them run to the darkness, let them go to hell. What kind of friend are you anyway?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Son continues the Father\u2019s quest …
\n<\/strong>In Genesis three we read how God came looking for Adam and Eve as they hid behind the trees after rebelling against him. In Luke nineteen we see Jesus continuing the search, but now on a much larger scale. He came to seek and to save the lost among all humanity. He is looking behind all the trees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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