Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Injustice

There is such and ebb and flow to life itself that you don't recognize until you're older. A baby is born, someone passes away. It's traumatic and yet it's completely normal. It's the way things work.
It's the people in the middle of the process that just get me. It boggles my brain. There is a woman in Doctor's Hospital in Augusta who is literally being eaten to death by a flesh eating virus. She is young and educated...did all the right things and now she sits in a hospital in a condition I cannot imagine where she is losing her leg and both her hands and maybe more. How is it ok for her to die slowly and painfully while the convicts sitting in jail who have committed many atrocities are allowed to live? How is it right?
They tought something Sunday at church concerning the human brain. Although mechanically, we use 100% of our brain, our thought processes, functions and mental capacity only accesses up to 10%. It was explained best in an article I read as the volume on the stereo being turned to 2 instead of 8 or 10. The potential is there...it's just not utilized. We also talked about how, when God made us, we had 100% use of our brains. We understood everything God did. However, the introduction of sin into those brains made it so we were capable of such a level of evil it would be detrimental to our own kind. Thus, we only access a small portion of what we have the potential for.
Not being a neuroscientist or truly understanding how the brain functions at all, it's hard to "wrap my brain" around the brain in general.
I do know that there are days when answers seem just out of reach. When I realize that situations can look very different depending on perspectives and that there is a big picture of which I do not always care about.
In the end, when we reach heaven and we again have the knowledge of God, when our brains are at 100% capacity and the big picture is revealed, I hope I understand why there was so much injustice in a world where I'm told there is a just God.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You raise a very good question that plagues the minds of many. There is an answer you can fully understand now and you are not far off from it. I'd like to share with you a scripture,
Ecclesiastes 3:11
“He has made everything appropriate[a] in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts,[b] but man cannot discover the work God has done from beginning to end.” HCSB
Footnotes: a. Or beautiful b. Or has put a sense of past and future into their minds, or has placed ignorance in their hearts
Humans will never know all that God knows. Our human brains are wonderfully made so that we will have opportunities for discovering something new about God for all eternity.
Agape, Daniel from Empyrean View