My Monday morning confession: I am conflicted about heaven. More shortly.
A class action law suit has been filed against Kellogg’s, alleging Kellogg’s strawberry Pop-Tarts have more apples and pears than strawberries. “The product’s common or usual name of ‘Frosted-Strawberry Toaster Pastries’ is false, misleading, and deceptive because its filling contains a relatively significant amount of non-strawberry fruit ingredients – pears and apples.” The suit asks for $5 million because the alleged nutritional benefits haven’t been provided. (Complex.com)
Many times a news report doesn’t give the whole story, and if that’s the case here, I’ll certainly back off, but for now, a law suit about Pop-Tarts? Really?
After thousands and thousands of years of looking up from Earth to the sky, Apollo 8, orbiting the Moon in 1968, gave us Earthlings a first time ever photo of our planet. You might say a “God’s eye view.” As William Shatner said after his short trip into space, “Suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden, as you whip off a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness, into black ugliness, and you look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there and it’s… it’s just.. there is Mother Earth.”
The Creator made a perfect home for us and even now it remains unbelievably beautiful. But our passions, our greed that disadvantages others, our litigious bent, our wars, our injustices, our pollutions, all our sins… Here’s what befuddles me. After all the damage we’ve willfully done, why, why would God still promise us “a new heaven and a new earth”? (Revelation 21:1). Why would God birth us in Christ to a “living hope, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you”? (1 Peter 1:4). The only answer I know is the mystery of God’s love for us. “Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!” (Romans 11:33). And we’re suing over Pop-Tarts, and all the other things Ecclesiastes calls “vanity.” Really?
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