Whose report will you believe?
Information has never been as detailed, as prolific, as accessible, as accelerated as it now is. The challenge is in processing – which requires and relies on conscious and subconscious systems of filtration, then assimilation. But the right brain has always offered us cognitive short cuts. This is why Jesus spoke in parables and his Spirit in pictures. It’s code. Programmers understand. Users don’t have to.
The story of human civilization can be summed up in a conversation between hands. Can hands talk? There the left brain goes again slowing stuff down. Well let’s wake up the imagination in decoding Psalm 19:1. In the same way that Divine intelligence displays (or utters) creative processes and products, human intelligence mirrors that process. Technology is to man what creation is to God.
Here is the dialectic behind human civilization, the intersection of those conversations – divine creativity on the one hand, human ingenuity and innovation on the other. And what does each say about the other? The narrative map goes something like: God is pleased with his creation. Man is proud of his innovation. Then both find something missing in their experience which causes each to seek the other, ending in technology fundamentally failing human aspirations, and human resourcefulness finding its context and expression through engagement with the divine. i.e. the works of man’s hands being connected to the will of God, and the will of man being connected to the working of God’s hand. Fusion. The Christ story. The story of human civilization in a few words. The apostle Paul said it this way, In Adam all died. In Christ all are given life.
Despite the promise of Resurrection, so many Christians fail to envision the viability of human needs (for communication, information, transportation, habitation, and even nutrition) being comprehensively and normatively met without resort to human technology, even building.a theology of work around Eden’s curse rather than Calvary’s provision, permanently postponing posthumously the age of the Supernatural, and relegating Rapture to an age perpetually to come, rather than a present alternative, as Jesus declared his other-worldly kingdom to be – ‘AT HAND’.
We have inherited the worship of our handiwork to the point of an outright denial of our divine, unlimited potential in Christ; choosing to normalize the presiding cultures of death in our medical, nutritional and manufacturing industries; rejecting as supernatural / ‘extra normal’ the life giving cultures that emanate from engagement with spiritual gifts/divine capacities through cultivation of the anointing (The Christ in us), which puts a gigantic condom on our Christianity, containing it within white-washed sepulchers, preventing its life giving seed from germinating in our culture and engendering holy hybrids of being which, like the natural creation, bespeak the majesty of the Divine intelligence, rather than singing odes to human cunning.
At this time of the year when Passion and Passover are commemorated, let’s all rehearse and embrace this divine triumph proceeding from human tragedy. Technology, the arm of the flesh, must fail, so that the arm of the Lord might be gloriously revealed. In Christ, we anticipate and embrace INCORRUPTIBLE.
YeKengalé 