I would like to supplement the last paragraph of yesterday’s meditation that the principle operating the world is not the reality to be grasped but the teaching of the Bible is. The thing to which we have to give first priority is what the reality (German- Wirklichkeit) is. The money we generally give utmost value is basically nothing but the means of exchange for goods and services. A village in a foreign country does not use currency that is issued from their own country but the currency made from their own village. It means they don’t want to come under the rule of their country’s economy. Yes. Money cannot guarantee its reality in the face of a person who neglects the power of money.
Besides money what could be the reality. Probably it is almost none. Everything on earth is only relative. Nothing absolutely rules human life. Despite this reality, the fact we are ruled by these relative things might prove that our life is not founded on the ultimate reality.
Then what is the reality? The ancient Greek philosophers said it were atom, fire, water and idea while the oriental philosophers disagreed. The people like Whitehead said that ‘process’ is the very ‘reality’. Such opinion of philosophers has a sense. However, it is hard to say that the ultimate reality is revealed by these things. The absolute reality including all these things is the very God.
If we identify this God we are the first though we are living in the place of the last. Do not regard such answer as something negligible. As the matured children who establish different relationship with their parent, we will be able to do away with the fixed idea about God and understand the implication of the first and the last when we have become spiritually matured. I pray that the word of the Lord may be the ultimate reality in our entire lives.
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