God's Has His Reasons: Redemption 

 "For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is — limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death — He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game he is playing with His creation, He has kept his own rules and played fair. He can exact nothing from man that He has not exacted from Himself. He has Himself gone through the whole of human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. When He was a man, He played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile” (Dorothy Sayers, Creed or Chaos? New York, Harcourt Brace, 1949, p. 4).

"Let Us Make Man in Our image" God "leaking" out

Up first today is the answers to the quiz: the first is from the tv show, King of the Hill. The song is by Prince (he is now a Jehovah Witness, which is not to say he is now a Christian, but is open to spiritual things). The last quote is from a very early episode of Desperate Housewives.
My intention is not to endosre any tv show or recording artist, but rather to point out that every once in awhile even non-Christians stumble upon something that is Biblically true about life. I call this God "leaking" out. No matter who we are, no matter what we believe, or not believe, as the case may be everybody has the capicity to speak truth.
In the Great Awakening of the 1820's in the United States there was the popular view amongst Christian evangelists in the Christian doctrine of the total depravity of mankind. This view of human beings has been around for a long time, and I cannot give it complete justice in this space. I will however try to describe it briefly. This view of humans believes that in and of ourselves we are completely lost without God and we can not do anything that is good. In a snese I believe this insofar as being totally spiritually lost and the need for God to rescue us from the trouble that sin creates in our lives. I do not believe that non-Christians have absolutley no ability to do or say something that is at least a shadow of God's image that every human has been created in. The overall image may be clouded and rather blury but it is there nonethelesss.
I have a file that I keep of song, quotes, and stories of non-Christians doing and saying things that denies the view of the world where God does not exist. I do not look at this as something impossible or unbiblical, instead I see this as proof that God not only exists but that He at times proves that His existence is undeniable.
This God "leaking"out also gives us several opportunities to engage people in discussions about Him. Instead of seeing people as our enimes this should encourage us the everyone is worthy of our time, effort, understanding, prayers, and love. When we affirm people as people that have God's own image locked away somewhere deep in their soul our affirmation can be the key God uses to give them the freedom only they can find in a relationship with Him.