GOD PUT WHEELS ON HIS CLASSROOM
GOD'S CLASSROOM - IT HAS WHEELS!
God lamented, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge"(Hosea 4:6). So God embarked on the mission to "[f]ill the earth with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea" (Isaiah 11:9)(Habakkuk 2:14)(Hosea 6:6). The propagation of the knowledge of God saves us from destruction.
Wide was the gap between our understanding of God and the nature of God. To fill the gap in our knowledge of God, God could have dispatched a subordinate. He could have sent a flunky. But He did not. The job was so important that God did the job Himself (Matthew 21:33-40). The Son of God became our teacher. It is written in the prophets: ‘They shall all be taught by God’(John 6:45).
Furthermore, God did not deliver the complete encyclopedia of the knowledge of God to the children of Adam and Eve. The weight of an encyclopedic data drop would have crushed the children of Adam and Eve. God was precise. God knew exactly the particular aspect of the knowledge of God that the Son of God would teach the children of Adam and Eve. He distilled from the knowledge of God its most salient aspect - the essence of divinity. The essence of divinity that Jesus taught us was this: "... for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more"(Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34)(Matthew 26:28). To bring the knowledge of God to us, Jesus built a classroom in the Valley of Tears. In the classroom, Jesus deposited a lopsided transaction that took place between creatures and Creator on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. The transaction is lopsided because, on our side of the transaction, we contributed evil to it - evil both brutal and lethal. On God's side of the transaction, Jesus contributed the sweet syrup of love in the form of forgiveness (Luke 23:34)(Jeremiah 31:31-34). In answer to the evil that we did to him, Jesus poured the sweet syrup of love in the form of forgiveness (Luke 23:34)(Jeremiah 31:31-34) into the Valley of Tears. It dilutes the toxicity of he Valley of Tears in the same way that sugar cubes dilute the bitterness of a cup of bad coffee. Dilution is God's solution to the problem of evil.
But, there was a problem with the classroom - a problem of logistics. The classroom in which God himself taught the children of Adam and Eve was located in the boondocks of space and time - in the "backside of the desert"(Exodus 3:1-3), far away and long ago. It came into existence at a place and time that was anonymous, inconspicuous and remote. How do we preserve God's classroom and propagate it from then and there, across space and time, to the children of Adam and Eve here and now? God solved the logistical problem in this way. GOD GAVE THE CLASSROOM WHEELS. HE MADE IT MOBILE. God invented a vehicle as the primary means for the conveyance of his classroom to the children of Adam and Eve. The vehicle is the Mass. Moreover, God established a Church to operate the vehicle. Logistics is the job of God's Church. Education is the job of God's Mass. At Mass, the mathematics of the Last Supper (Luke 22:19)(Luke 22:20)(John 6:31-59) are done again. Out of love for us, Jesus makes an equation. He puts the equal sign between the flesh and blood of sacrifice and the bread and wine of forgiveness. By virtue of the announcement of the equation of the Last Supper, the paradigm shifted. Still, the rabble and its ringleader take from Jesus his flesh and blood. However, instead of the flesh and blood of sacrifice, Jesus transubstantiates them into the bread and wine of forgiveness (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34). By means of forgiveness (Jeremiah 31:31-34)(Luke 23:34), his bloody wounds have become the floodgates of forgiveness (Malachi 3:10) through which the sweet syrup of love in the form of forgiveness pours into the Valley of Tears in answer to the evil that we did to him. Without food and drink, we die of hunger and thirst. Without the God who forgave us for the evil that we did to him, death is just as certain (Genesis 3:3). GOD DARED US. So we did as he dared. "Put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, And see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you, and pour down upon you blessing without measure!"(Malachi 3:10)(John 7:38). The byproduct of the test to which we put Jesus tells us everything we need to know about our God. It fills the gap in our knowledge of God. It upgraded our understanding of God from coach to first class. It illuminated the darkness of our understanding of God in a glorious burst of epiphany.
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