To The Arrogant

Who are you, you ant, crawling around the edge of the Grand Canyon, thinking that you might perceive the breadth and height and depth of it? Crawling around on the surface of this earth like a fungus, destroying the green life, spewing the poisonous breath of your greed into its atmosphere. You think, in your blind arrogance, that you determine Truth? You create with that which you did not create; even your own mind. Yet you think, because of your great accomplishments, the mind that you did not create is the highest intelligence in the universe? Tell me, if you can, what is a thought? How were you conceived, and what happened that your physical body was formed in the womb of a woman? Can you duplicate the process by which you came to be? Starting from nothing?

You did not and can not create or determine Truth! Truth was here before the earth came to be. You are here because of Truth, and you operate, from birth to death, within its domain. But you do not determine it. It would greatly behoove you to go to your knees in humility and ask the God of this universe, Who gave you life and a sustaining earth, to please reveal Himself to you. But if you approach Him without appropriate humility and sincerity, you should not expect to hear the Good News that sets the spirit free. God does not respond to pride and arrogance kindly. It would not be loving to do so. Hell is full of the proud and arrogant, the power mongers and deceitful [and deceived] manipulators; those who get lost in themselves and all the stuff of man. Run from that hell! Run fast and hard! Run toward Truth as if it were the only line trailing behind the mid-ocean cruise ship from which you just fell overboard. Your life depends on it. And if you feel some fear about death and about your own dark side, that is very good. Nourish that fear. “Twas grace that taught my heart to fear” [John Newton, from the hymn "Amazing Grace"].  “The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom” [Prov.1:7].  Let that fear drive you toward the Truth that will free you from all fear. Wake up! Wake up!