“It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God's existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers' sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out to the periphery of our secularized life. His truth is no longer welcome in our public discourse. The engine of modernity rumbles on, and he is but a speck in its path.” Quote http://members.aol.com/augusteen/Weightless.html
God's distance from us at times seems to be a great deal of perspective. I would argue that perspective has to do with our view of the scripture. God is never more real than through the illumined truth of the Bible, Old and New Testaments. This is His revelation to His people for all time.
We live in not just a period of time (the 21st c) but in a place that is at it's core dark and bleak. The hope however is in the washing of this earth in the blood of a savior that has come to heal and make glad his creation and people! We would do well to consider this as we go through the ins and outs of our daily routine and consider the immensity and intimacy of our God.
Amen.
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