God’s Left Foot

Made in the image of the Transcendent God, we are transcendent beings, albeit on a limited basis. We are in and of the natural world — our internal biological systems are semi autonomous, controlled from within our bodies as is the case with other living things. We are wholly mammalian, but unlike other mammals, in our psyches we transcend our animal limitations. Chimpanzees may show remote signs of abstract thinking, but they don’t imagine what it is like to be a fish and then tell each other fish tales. This ability gets us into as much trouble as it is freeing for us. We get lost in it and that quite frequently.

Unlike God we are not aware of and intimately and consciously involved in all the systems that keep us alive, internally and externally, although we imagine a day that we will be. That will never happen.

But as  for God — He made it all and maintains it all — consciously.

As for our “all important” universe, it’s as if it is all going on in the fleshy gap between two toes on God’s left foot — but for some reason He cares. It has a cancer residing in the human psyche  that threatens to throw the whole thing into chaos. He could lop His whole left foot off and make a new one, but He decided it is so important to Him that He made His Only Son into a left foot cell and injected Him right into the heart of the tumor. The other diseased cells attacked Him and killed Him, but this released the serum that will eventually dissolve the tumor and save God’s left foot, also eventually making it perfectly healthy and immune to all other diseases. The curing power spreads from cell to cell, each event a unique microcosm of the initial application.

As for all the cells in God’s left foot, you are either being part of the cure or part of the disease. And always remember, as with the religious leaders in the Gospel account of this ongoing docudrama — the sickest, most disease spreading cells fully believe they have and are part of the only known cure.