Like that of a junky profusely longing, searching, and sacrificing anything for their first high, thralldom humanity persistently lurks in the back allies of lust where the shadows of their aggressive selfishness accommodates there longing for something they once had. Affably accommodating are the ways of the world to keep desires filled to the hilt, never resting, never satisfied, and still wanting more. Humanity’s aimless confusion has kept them back from reaching the fullness of joy and God that they so seek after and like the Israelites delivered from Egypt, they too have wondered astray from the path that leads to life, liberty, and prosperity.
The ‘taste’ of God and what He offers through His Son Jesus has left not only a desirable longing for more to the adulated stranger but an adaptive wit to seek, adjust, and obtain the tangible quickly and privately without the strain of pledging allegiance to a sovereign God who cares even about the hairs of one’s hair. Their hope is to relinquish the painstaking task of first seeking the invisible to obtain the tangible.
How can one seek for the Invisible without the light that was created to see what is not, and to believe what cannot?
Gregory of Nyssa (c. 330-c. 395) in his exposition and defense of the Christian faith explored the longing of humanity for God. His analysis explored the depravity of human nature coupled with the absence of Gods nature within His creation. Gregory ardently protest, “What was high has been made low; what was created in the image of heaven has been reduced to earth; the one who was ordained to govern the earth has been reduced to a slave; what was created for immortality has been destroyed by death; the one who lived in the joys of Paradise has ended up in this place of drudgery and illness…. And when we reflect on the fact that humanity was originally free from all of these, and when we compare the joys that we once knew with our present misery by setting our sadness alongside that better life.”
There is a hope for tomorrow for our present sorrows; what are we willing to give for it?
To come out of the shadows of following others joys, our youthful lusts, and apish temptations, and let us again walk once more with the one who gave us the desire to seek for a joy not found on earth; a joy that inflames the entire being; the joy of Life in Him and the communion He has afforded all who are humble. For it is the meek who will inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5).
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