Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Ps 127:1

Back in the mid 1990’s, I had the good fortune of working in the New Bedford Public School System as a facilitator in a federally funded Home School Goal Project. The primary purpose of this program was to cut costs by integrating out-placed special needs students into the local system. Of course, the challenges and complications along the way served to highlight some of the strengths of those involved. I, for one, received an interesting compliment from a Harvard PhD who was acting as a consultant to our team. He pointed out that I had a special gift of being able to “make sense out of nonsense.”

In all fairness to our consultant, he was really referring to my organizational/administrative ability to simplify complicated situations as opposed to literally making sense out of nonsense. Not one person in all of history has been able to do that. To “make sense,” one has to completely agree with the actual design/nature of the thing or circumstance being discussed. Make sense? It should, because a nonsensical approach can only produce more of itself. Everything produces after it’s own kind!!

Now, the highest version of making sense is to gain the perspective of truth as God would have it. After all, He is the One who gives meaning to every detail of this created world. What’s interesting is that people (this includes you and me) constantly try to warp or alter God’s truth by applying spins of all kinds. In reality, that is trying to make sense out of nonsense. We already know this cannot happen. Trying to add our spin to God’s perfection could be viewed as an attempt to make nonsense out of sense.

So why don’t we go to the place where making sense often clashes with the full spectrum of nonsense? God, in His Word, tells us that the only way to Heaven or eternal life in Him is through the honoring of Jesus Christ, His Holy Son. Many believe they will be able to come to Him via their own design, be it through good works or another method. Sadly, they will have put their faith in something of no proven basis. It is the ideal example of trying to make sense of God’s heart using the nonsense of our own.

There is but one supreme and holy Superintendent. What’s so cool is that His goal is to call each of us back into His Home School. Recognizing our special need for His guardianship, guidance, governance, grooming and growth is our privileged choice. Remaining in an outside placement or in an unholy system of our own makes us an outcast of God and a devotee to all things nonsense. This is a personal and eternal cost way too expensive to pay! So let’s do the obvious and strive for that which truly makes sense! He is the way, the truth, and the life and His name is Jesus.

 Romans 8:28; John 14:6;1 Cor 1:25

Editor’s Note: Our special needs are universally shared, and through Christ, our special needs have been eternally provided.