Among the mysteries of the universe is the age of said universe. The tool used by science to calculate the universe’s age is called the gravitational constant. This refers to the rate at which everything is expanding. A seemingly small difference in estimates of that can translate to several billion years’ difference in estimated age. Then there’s the question of what it’s all heading to. There is even less certainty concerning what lies at the other, future end of things, a topic in physical cosmology.
Meanwhile, there are those who present challenges to what we take for granted in our everyday experience, such as the perception of colours and the passing of time, which are said to be constructs of our minds.
A reliable source points out that the path toward reality — ultimate and everyday — starts with what we do rather than with that which we (presume to) know.
Action, then content: That was the order of things for Jesus when he sent out 70 followers. Heal, then announce the Kingdom, a new reality, a taste of the transformation in store for the whole cosmos. The followers’ own link to this universal transformation was signalled, in the language and symbolism of the time, through assurance of their names being “written in heaven” (References here are from Luke 10: 1-24).
The fundamental activity of humans is to be a coming together. That necessitates healing in this fractured world. The demonically characteristic affliction of our time is disconnectedness and, along with it, polarization, or tribalism, often intentionally engineered.
The claim of Scripture is that the goal of humanity with the divine is a unity, both celebrating and simultaneously unifying our wonderful diversity. See, for example, Revelation 7:9.
But something spectacular is to happen. The observations about our brains and perception of the present world are not that different from the insistence of the Apostle Paul that we must exchange present, limited perceptions for a new being in order to be part of ultimate reality (1 Corinthians 15:53).
The richness and wonder if it all is ours now. How? Whenever we seek healing for humanity, or simply care for one another, we are tapping into what it’s all and forever about.