Living on the Sine Wave

June 1, 2009

Today's Reading: 1 Kings 15-16 and 2 Corinthians 5

For those of you who aren’t familiar with a sine wave, then you might want to find some sort math-lete who understands y=sinx. The graph is a curve that goes up and down, which is very similar to the collective morality of Judah and Isreal.

I don’t know if there is any record of the Annals of the Kings of Judah or the Annals of the Kings of Israel, but the Bible certain refers to this source a lot. I guess so we can see more of their daily activities other than mentioning of the high places.

But hey, there is nothing worse than someone who is good one day and then bad the next. Man, could you just pick a side and stay with it, please? In fact, for all those good people who occasionally dabble in evil, can I just say one thing? Just be evil! I mean, don’t fool yourself, you can’t be both. By the way, don’t listen to what I said, I don’t want you to be evil.

Still, it’s sort of like what Jack Sparrow said in Pirate of the Caribbean: “You can always count on a dishonest person to be dishonest. It’s the honest ones that you have to worry about, because you can never tell when they will do something absolutely stupid.”

Yeah, I would say that out of all the nations in the world, it is probably Israel that probably did the stupidest stuff, really. I mean, all the other ones like Babylonia or Egypt can at least claim ignorance.

However, I can’t claim any degree of superiority. The other day, I began to notice habit patterns that I was falling back into about twenty years ago. Man, did I feel like a huge prize chump that hadn’t changed one bit. I began to wonder why the heck I went through the last twenty years for if I had learned nothing.

Yeah, I think we all fluctuate, and we just don’t ever really settle down on any particular alignment unless we are really forced to. However, given our own fickle selves, we generally will fall for anything since we stand for nothing.

Perhaps this is why 2 Corinthians 5 tells of us of how we groan and long to have a heavenly dwelling. I suppose in heaven we won’t be tempted to fall into old habits, or any bad new ones, for that matter. However, if I am going to enter heaven, I would really like to leave everything else behind me.