Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Languages

All around the world we have many different languages. English, Spanish, Chinese, etc. All of them are different but they have the same origin. The core languages are Greek and Latin. Even those languages go back to another language. Before the Tower of Babel happened in the Bible everyone spoke the same language. We know this because God said, "Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." So that means there was one language before then, or was there? I personally think that God has a language of His own. We cannot understand it. Well maybe we can scientifically but that only ruins it. I think that C. S. Lewis did an amazing job in The Chronicles of Narnia when he wrote how Narnia came into exsistance which is an analogy of God making our world. When the main characters first see Narnia it was pitch black. Nothing. They couldn't see anything. Then they heard first rather than saw first. A noise was being made in the distance and as it grew louder then they saw a light in the distance. As the light came closer then words became clearer. In the story it nevers says that there were words being sung. It just says that the Voice rose and fell and made different tunes. There may not have been words but it was a language. As you know the singer was Aslan and as he drew closer and the light was all around them he sang another song. In this song trees grew, animals were formed, waters came forth, etc. All of Narnia was created by song and in Aslan's language. Now God spoke our world into being but He spoke in His own language. The earth, space, our DNA, everything around us is God's language. He shows us things through His language. He spoke the rainbow as a promise. He tells us of His wonders when we see the sunrises and sunsets. He tells us who we are when we look at our DNA. He talks to us in that still, small voice that we don't necessarily understand but it comforts us. He tells us of His pain and sorrows through earthquakes, floods, and disasters. Those disasters are also His way of judgement and punishment but He hurts when He has to punish His children so it's fitting that the tears of God flood the land. The earth moans and splits like God's heart and it quakes from His judgement and wrath. It's His language that maybe someday He will teach to His children. Maybe He's been trying to teach it to us now and we just haven't noticed. The language of God is as complex as the most scientific minds but so simple a child can understand it. It's full of passion, beauty, wrath, sorrow, and love. It's the language from the beginning of time.

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