Unplugged and Disenchanted

     As I go through social media to look for cool quotes, read about black holes and stars, and attempt to focus my thoughts on Jesus, infinity, and eternity, I can't help but feel a state of such a strong disconnect with American culture, American entertainment, and especially American politics. 

  It's not that I don't care about these things, I just see them from a different vantage point. The vantage point of someone who worships an infinite God. As I became more immersed in my biggest possible belief system, the more disenchanted and less of a priority the trivialities, sillyness, and simplicities of our culture and politics became. 

These things became less significant, less important, and less valuable. I don't even see myself as a Democrat, Republican, liberal, or conservative anymore. I see myself more as someone who tries to think independently of the confines of mass media and ideological groupthink.

 Hell, if existence is truly infinite and eternal, than none of this really matters. It's all distraction. Its all control. It's all just oppression of the mind. 

Breaking free of that mental bondage is difficult. Its also frightening when you do. The system just wants to put you back to sleep. It's like being unplugged and awaking into a relationship with a being of infinite power, infinite glory, and infinite love.

I look up at the sky on clear nights to get a glimpse of my infinity. A reminder of the insignificance of such a broken place. A reminder that in an infinite existence created by infinite God, our tiny little world hosts a tiny little species that kills its own kind over such tiny little things, and He still loves it. He still loves me even how small I am.

The vantagepoint of infinity and eternity puts into perspective the sad and stupid things we destroy our lives over, whether it be politics or our families. The depravity and corruption of our culture are put into perspective as well. How easy and inconsequential it would be for an infinite God to cleanse the world and terminate a broken system as quickly as snapping a finger. 

In an infinite existence, one broken and sick world is exactly that; just one world. One world of countless. It would be like burning a needle out of a stack of needles out of a stack of a stack of needles in a forest of trillions of trees with trillions upon trillions of needles. 

Quite the perspective of insignificance I would say. But that is the lense of an infinite God. If it weren't for Love and Grace the fulfillment of Glory, He would have burned this place already.

Looking at my life and my world through the lense of infinity makes the politics of this world trivial and stupid. It feels like being unplugged from a lie, but still subject to the whims of authorities given power by that lie.

No matter. This place won't imprison me forever. Soon my chains of my humanity are going to be just as obliterated and shattered as the chains of my mind seemingly have been, and I will taste a perfect liberation from this tiny, trivial world. I will be completely unplugged.

Utterly liberated.