IS IT POSSIBLE TO 'BE WORTHY'?

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Posted by Landar - June 7, 2010 Comments 0

IS IT POSSIBLE TO ‘BE WORTHY’?

In my post ‘WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BORN AGAIN?’ I suggested there were two factors involved in this question. One was that other people carry our completeness within them and bring it towards us. The second was that it happens through grace. I’d like to say a few things here about grace itself.

By definition the concept of grace bears no sense of neccessity. It’s freely given. However, it does perhaps suggest the idea of being ‘found worthy’. Beyond that one can say nothing. That makes it almost the single most beautiful concept in human experience. The other side of being found worthy is ‘to make yourself worthy’. This does not imply that anything will come by grace as a consequence. But it might help to create the right conditions.

There is a debate going round in philosophy which asks, ‘Why is there something instead of nothing?’ Why, for example, is there a universe when a more natural state would be no universe? One may be content to say the ‘Big Bang’. There is another answer. It also contains the notion that beyond a certain point one can say nothing. It’s the concept of grace. (I’m retaining the lower case ‘g’ because I believe the notion is not the prerogative of any religion but a simple matter of truth.) There is ‘something’ because of grace. Does that have the corollary of being ‘found worthy’? No. A new creation can’t have done anything yet to be found worthy. And yet if it’s worthy of its Creator (I can’t avoid the capital here) it must contain the beautiful possibility of making itself worthy.

I suggested that being ‘born again’ is something that happens through grace. I believe it’s a truth and reality – almost the greatest one beyond Creation. I believe that one far-off day it will be acknowledged by science itself.