They end singing "it's all for the best" on top of one of the twin towers.
In some sense that's true (following Romans 8:28), but it is hard to know how 9/11 worked for good, even for those who love God. Somehow.
Thursday, September 15, 2022
all for the best
In checking a sidenote to a study on Jeremiah, I looked up It's All for the Best. I concluded that the song had too much flippancy to be useful, though the solo of Herod/Judas singing "Some men are born to live at ease, doing what they please, richer than the bees are in honey Never growing old, never feeling cold, pulling pots of gold from thin air" and ending with "Someone's got to be oppressed" is perfect--beautifully cold.
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The rhythm and cleverness made it a song I would often have in my short list of things to hum. It's a patter song, similar to G&S.
I take the "all things work together for good" meaning to be about God's ability to transform rather than our ability to understand. Some things are clearly not going to be for any good on their own. Evil is real. But as in Milton, redemption of any circumstance is promised.
Once again, C. S. Lewis put it better than I could.
“I will tell you what I say,” answered Ransom, jumping to his feet. “Of course good came of it. Is Maleldil a beast that we can stop His path, or a leaf that we can twist His shape? Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed Him. That is lost for ever. The first King and first Mother of our world did the forbidden thing, and He brought good of it in the end. But what they did was not good, and what they lost we have not seen. And there were some to whom no good came nor ever will come.”
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