Polystyrene

 

Polystyrene

    Extruded styrene monomers are better known as Styrofoam.  Trapping air in its hydrogen to carbon bonds make it an effective insulator.  However, the unique chemical bonding presents it an environmental threat.  See, it resists decomposition to the natural forces of this world.

     In Acts 2, approximately three-thousand souls were added to the Church.  On that day, they were united, being bound together.  Running a long strand, believers locked hands and became God’s new creation, a formidable unit braving opposition.

     The egg carton Church is hardly a warrior cry carried over two millennium. “Two dozen!  That’s right.  Grade A! Grade A!  Onward, wave the banner.”  But this is the calling He has for us.

     A city on a hill cannot be hidden.  Neither can She just blend in.  No, She sticks out like a sore thumb.  Past kingdoms were of stone and mortar, She is constructed of a different substance.  It flexes, it holds and cushions inside what is entrusted to Her.  Outside, forces rage but cannot penetrate thick walls.  Sliced and scarred as they may be, martyrs spill blood out Her seams.

     Jesus said His kingdom was not of this world.  Correct, as He told Peter to put his sword away.  Now we do not see everything brought under His feet.  He has commissioned His warring Church to police this planet until He comes back.  A physical sword and heavenly shield we do not see.  Once He called His army out of Egypt, but this is another time.  He works with Mankind differently now.

     She has been poured out upon all flesh. His Spirit has brought the great deluge.  What was before in the death of a flood, God brings life in submerging Man in light.  She has come here in three waves: to convince us of our sin, to show Jesus as righteous, and to put down the works of the enemy.  She is the great shaper and power of the Church.  Without Her, the eggs would be poached or scrambled.

     What we cannot keep on our own, He calls us to trust.  Mighty insulating walls push back this world’s threats.  He continually reassures us not to trust in the organization of religion but in the power supporting Her.

     All eggs are in one basket.  Thankfully, the material is of a kind never precedented.  Long polystyrene chains continue to join forth as converts lock hands with believers.  Decomposition She does not know.  Caustic and corrosive spit only provokes Her to continue on, rebuking false accusations spewed by Satan.

     Thank you, Lord for what You have started.  You bless us by keeping and protecting us from this world.

 

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