Just me trying to be honest with God.

Monday, July 14, 2008

“Love conquers everything even karma.” Mettrie L.

“Love conquers everything even karma.” Mettrie L.

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. Prov4.23 ESV

The idea of karma has evolved in western thought to simply mean that we reap what we sow. It is used mainly to describe something we are experiencing right now that has come to us from some past action. Eastern thought would say that what you have done in another past life is being visited upon you in your present one. Whether we believe in past lives or simply in past actions, there remains in both views some notion that God is going to see that we are rewarded for every good and every bad thing that we do. In short, the seed I plant today become the garden I will live in tomorrow and the garden I live in now has grown from the seed I planted yesterday. When you think about it, it is good that we live in a world of cause and effect. But it is also good that we live under the amazing grace of an amazing God. For, while Christians believe in the ordinary means of reaping what you sow, we also believe in the extraordinary means of grace or as C. S. Lewis named it, "the deep magic before the dawn of time." In that “deep magic” we hear the echo of the three most powerful words uttered in all history, spoken from atop a wooden cross, words that conquer everything, even karma; “It is finished!” 7/14/2008 ts