“There was a mathematician, Edward Norton Lorenz, and he described what he called the butterfly effect. The idea of the butterfly effect is very small events can sometimes have staggeringly great and unpredictable consequences. And a famous article about that talked about how a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could impact a tornado, when it arose and where it would land in Texas weeks later.
Alan Turing from the UK wrote, The displacement of a single electron by one billionth of a centimeter at one moment may make the difference between a man being killed by an avalanche a year later or escaping from it. We are not in control the way that we think we are. And in fact, Luke is saying precisely this word.
There is another purpose that's going on here. So there is another way of looking at the Orchard of the Universe. And here we have God at work.
And then we have Jesus, who is going to make God known to our world. Appears to be this insignificant little baby in a manger. Come back to the manger.”
“And then there is the world. And then there is this town called Bethlehem, and Caesar is way down here. And so the Bible says actually, the way that the world is running is quite different than the way the world think that it's running.
Like Caesar issues a decree, sets everything in motion. Like Yertle the Turtle, if you know that old book, I'm the king of all that I see. All these other turtles are way down beneath me.
But in the story of Yertle the Turtle, a tiny little turtle named Mack gives a burp, and that disrupts the throne of the king and the throne of Caesar. The rule of power is going to be changed. Because what happens is, as a result of this decree that Caesar thinks is just his idea, just his power, it sets in motion a string of events where one obscure man named Joseph leaves his town and goes to a city called Bethlehem, where as it turns out, a prophetic prediction was made many centuries ago.
This is in Micah, Chapter 5. But you, Bethlehem, Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will”
From John Ortberg | Become New: 10. How to Welcome Jesus into the Chaos of Life | John Ortberg, Dec 13, 2024
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From John Ortberg | Become New: 10. How to Welcome Jesus into the Chaos of Life | John Ortberg, Dec 13, 2024
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