The Divine Crash

I had a teacher in 11th grade who would tell me “You don’t know what you don’t know.”  I always thought that was true, until this morning.  Now I wonder if sometimes we do know what we don’t know.Before I get to far let me clarify I affirm that sin exists and that all people have sinned and are separated from God because of that sin and that salvation only comes because of Jesus’ work on the Cross that happened once for all people.

That being said I was pondering to myself if people know they are sinful without ever being told?  I often hear pastors or other Christians share the gospel starting with the basis that “You are a sinner and Jesus saves.”  What if people already know they are sinners?

What if people already ache in their being because of their sin and they try to fill that ache with more sin to drown out the noise of that sin? Then it breeds to addiction?

What if when Jesus says “Blessed are the poor in spirit because theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  He is acknowledging that people already understand sin?

Maybe we call our sin different things, loneliness, boredom, hatred, etc…  and we honestly don’t know that what we are doing is offensive to God and separates us from God but maybe we know that it is not congruent with the way we were created?

Maybe those feelings are from God? What if that ache we feel when we drink too much or we cheat on our taxes or when we watch that dirty movie alone in our room at night are God screaming into our soul that He desires more for our life? Would that be called provenient grace?

If it is God’s grace why don’t we listen to it? Is it because we don’t know what grace is?  Just like we may not know what we are doing is offensive to God?

If people don’t know about Grace and God speaking to them then is that why we evangelize? Is the Gospel really good news because it brings grace?

Does that make the story of Jesus so offensive because no one likes being told what they are doing is wrong even though in the depths of their soul they know it is wrong?

If people already understand that they are not the way they were created does that change the way we evangelize? Instead of starting with “You’re a sinner”  should Christians start with “You are saved by Jesus in the midst of your sins?”  Would that revolutionize church? Christianity? Discipleship? The entire world as we know it?

So then maybe we do know what we don’t know and that changes everything or maybe something else entirely and I have no clue what I am talking about?

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