Feb
25
2022
Biff’s World
Posted in Christian Worldview 4 Comments
We needed a part for our heater.
It all began with an email from our electric company.
The email informed us that our bill was going to quite high.
Our usage was up tremendously.
It is just my husband and I at home now.
We are not doing anything different.
There is no extra laundry.
It is not the season for air conditioning.
I had been telling my husband that I felt a draft as I sat in my comfy chair.
He asked me if the draft felt like it was coming towards me or away from me.
He asked that because there is a return vent on the wall behind me.
I told him it felt like it was going away from me.
It had been extremely cold before we received that email.
The temperature was in the single digits.
I knew our Geo-thermal heat was running a lot.
I don’t think either of us realized how much it was running.
My husband, the engineer, did some investigating.
He troubleshooted different scenarios.
None were the problem.
It was decided that we needed a professional opinion.
The company we formerly used closed down when the owner retired.
He sold his business but we wanted to find someone else.
Geo-thermal heat is a very specific type of system.
Not all HVAC companies service that kind of heater.
My husband went online and found a company nearby.
He submitted an online service request with a follow up phone call in the morning.
Someone would be out later that day.
My husband was home, so he could answer any questions.
The young man came and diagnosed the problem.
The compressor on our heater had been running constantly for a few weeks.
The problem was the capacitor.
It astonished me that such a small part could cause the problems we were having.
I kept thinking of the flux capacitor from Back To The Future.
A tiny part, in a car run with plutonium, allowed Doc Brown and Marty McFly to time travel.
No time travel here.
However, the same small part (minus the plutonium) was the culprit.
Back To The Future was always a favorite movie around here.
My husband and I saw the original movie in the theater on a date.
When subsequent movies were released as part of a trilogy, we watched them all.
I have the entire set and have watched it many times.
I personally enjoyed the first movie and the third movie about the Wild West.
It was the second movie I disliked.
I never wanted to watch it.
Everything was so broken and twisted in Biff, the antagonist’s world.
Broken, twisted.
It seemed like all goodness had been removed.
Something was desperately missing.
Evil was the right descriptive.
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 21:25)
Moral relativism.
Denial of absolute truth.
Humanistic perspective.
Displacement of God.
It is a terrible thing to live in Biff’s world.
Right is wrong and wrong is right.
Free speech is restricted.
Speaking up for truth and goodness labels you an enemy.
When God is removed from the Throne of our life, something else is put in His place.
When truth becomes relative, there is no standard of right or wrong.
Everyone does what is right in their own eyes.
There is nothing new under the sun.
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it. (Madeleine L’Engle)
I have always loved Madeleine L’Engle’s words.
That is how I try, with God’s help, to live my life.
A better way has to be shown.
Biff’s world is not working.
People argue over politics.
People argue over who is the best person for this or that position.
Government is not going to save us from Biff’s world.
Only a heart change will do.
We have a Creator God who, by His intelligent design, created this world.
He created all of us in His image.
When God is forgotten or laid aside, everything is backwards.
We become the center; everything resolves around us and we attempt to fix the problems.
Without God, we are all Biff.
When God is removed from the equation, we do what is right in our own eyes.
We have no moral center; we have no standard of righteousness.
Everything is twisted and broken; everything is backwards.
Our need for a capacitor reminded me of Back To The Future.
Thinking of the movie reminded me of how much I disliked the second story of the trilogy.
I feel as if I’m living in Biff’s world at this present time.
But God.
God will not abandon us or forsake us.
God is Sovereign over all.
God has His hand over all that He has made.
God loved us so much He sent His Son, Jesus to die, rise again, and ascend to His right hand.
God so loved the world.
This is not the world God made.
Sin has turned God’s creation into Biff’s world.
One day, God will make everything new.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” (Revelation 21:1-5)
Gina ‘Back to the Future’ is one of my families favs too! In these times we do need to show his light and love to others. It is a choice that the Holy Spirit brings to mind often.
Amen, Nancy!
Beautiful Gina. Thank you for this reminder that God will never abandon us.
Sherie,
That Truth brings me such comfort.
Gina