I’ve just finished auditing three online post-secondary courses in the past two weeks. Which really means I listened to around 120 videos (each about 10-15 minutes long).
All three courses were on history, basically covering from 0 AD through 2013 AD.
What a quick reminder of the place of the “people” in history. We seek for power, wealth, and wisdom in deadly cycles. We seem to affirm that to kill off our opponents will bring purity. We act as though we are God. That doesn’t work well.
And somehow in the battles and the reigns of kings and kingdoms, we see that old phrase arise – “power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And then that next phrase, “take heed lest you fall.”
And somewhere in the midst of “reading” all this history, I catch that glimpse when I look to the periphery, that there is a God – a “beyond us” being. Who judges, and yet loves – who knows all, and yet gives free will – who controls all, and yet hears pleadings.