If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?

We do not hold the solution to our problems, unless we see the destruction of ourselves as the solution to our problems.

When we elevate the relevance of our intellectual acumen to the point where we now declare God as irrelevant, we can be certain that the one thing that’s become strikingly relevant is our imminent destruction.

Of all the things that God could have done, I have yet to get over the fact that He chose us to fix the world that we screwed up. And in terms of second-chances, this is one of the biggest ones we’ll ever get.

Do we not understand that the absence of God is the presence of evil? And if we think ourselves so shrewd as to be able to ‘by-pass’ this reality, we have handed ourselves a ‘free-pass’ to our own destruction.

Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.

Fear tells me that while there might be a host of people who wish to stand beside me in times of crisis, the tangled wreckage is sometimes so enormous that the best of their efforts leave them stranded at a great distance. And standing desperately alone surveying the carnage that holds all others a bay, God suddenly taps me on the shoulder, leans over and whispers, 'how about a little demolition?

When our lives lay in scorched shambles, we cannot allow our lives to take on the identity of the carnage that lies smoldering all around us. Therefore, we must create something that irrefutably declares we are not what lies strewn at our feet. And so, we create successes that declare we are not this! Yet, the carnage remains.

Are we so utterly foolish that to repent of our ignorance will require the destruction of our lives? And if this is the sad reality, then let us be destroyed so that we can begin the process of rebuilding.