Theological Math

Take the num­ber one, which stands for you, and divide it by the roughly twenty bil­lion peo­ple that have ever lived. Sub­tract the infi­nite uni­verse and the infi­nite God, and that very small num­ber is the per­cent­age of which the world revolves around you. If the math prob­lem ended here, you would be tempted to feel pretty worth­less. Add back the infi­nite value of your eter­nal soul. When you do, you should come out about even.
Life appears to be a zero sum game. As the Apos­tle Paul said, “We brought noth­ing into the world, and it is cer­tain that we will take noth­ing from it.” Then again, he was talk­ing about mate­r­ial things. All of the “stuff” stays here. The soul? Now that is a dif­fer­ent story.
The uni­verse began with some­thing the weight of a whis­pered breath pushed to the speed of light. The Cre­ator appar­ently likes mak­ing much out of noth­ing. The same appears to par­al­lel that of the human soul. From noth­ing comes some­thing that never ends. I like that for­mula. The alter­na­tive, an infi­nite void, would not have been much fun.
Qual­ity life is about appre­ci­a­tion and bal­ance. We did not cre­ate our­selves. We are not the cen­ter of what is hap­pen­ing, but we are of ines­timable worth. Our value comes from a greater but gen­er­ous Value. We are a smat­ter­ing of the Eter­nal.
Math is not my strongest apti­tude, but I know a good deal when I see it. I am attracted to what Jesus called in his para­bles, “the Mas­ter that reaps where he does not sow.” All of this from noth­ing. What a bargain!