“HEAVEN meets EARTH like a sloppy wet kiss”I recently realized that I got the primary condition of His kingdom all wrong, that His kingdom is not crease-less, wrinkle-less, squeaky-clean or glossy. As someone else said, it's like a game of poker where God wins no matter what hand He is dealt, even a pair of twos. It is like David who murdered someone to marry Bathsheba, and yet God caused Jesus to be born through that marriage. That in any mess, God can create beauty. A beautiful mess.
The idea behind the lyric is that the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of earth converge in a way that is both beautiful and awkwardly messy. Think about the birth of a child, or even the death of Jesus himself. These miracles are both incredibly beautiful and incredibly sloppy ("gory" may be more realistic, but “Heaven meets earth like a gory mess” didn’t seem to have the same ring). Why does the church have such a problem with things being sloppy? Do we really think we’re fooling anyone on Sunday morning, especially God? Are we going to offend him? I mean, he’s seen us naked in the shower all week and knows our worst thoughts, and still thinks we’re awesome. What if we took all the energy we spent faking and used that energy to enjoy the Lord instead? That could be revolutionary!
Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 475
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thanks bro. it's good :)
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