Science tells us humans are born with a sort of binary response system when it comes to conflict. It’s fight or flight. Black or white. Off or on. When something bad happens we either run away or turn to fight it.
Even sin and salvation in the Old Testament was a sort of binary system. You either obey the law, or you die. There was no third option.
But then Jesus comes along and presents that new option. It’s no longer obey the law or die. There’s now the option to accept Christ’s finished worked on the cross and live. It was a completely new option that we could have never seen otherwise.
When we make that decision to repent and follow Christ, the Bible says our spirit comes alive. We’re no longer just a body (physical) and a soul (emotional, mental)… We’re now a three-part being. We’re no longer a binary system, we now have a third option.
You see, human beings were never meant to be machines. Machines think in off and on. Machines don’t have the third option. But Christ offers us the ability, as human beings, to be creative. We have the ability to see three options when it appears there are only two.
Even faith is a sort of creative endeavor. We have faith that there is a third option when it seems there are only two. We know there’s a life beyond this one and that we have access to it through the creative act of Jesus—dying on the cross to give us a third option for our eternity.
So what am I saying in all this philosophical discourse? I’m saying God has created you to be creative. He wants you to look for that third option when a task seems hopeless. Believe there’s more than what you see. There’s a hidden option.
It’s the glory of God to conceal a matter, it’s the glory of kings to search it out.
Be a king.