Today we mark ourselves
Recently my thoughts were published here on the Christian Today newsite.
I wrote about how I have trouble getting engaged with Revelation, that last book in the bible but
recently I had a thought. Just a single thought. That’s all my brain is capable of I expect.
The thought was regarding the "mark of the beast".
Lots of Christians take this very literally and believe that near the end of the world we will need to get a number or mark on us in order to purchase food etc. They are on the look-out for signs of this, such as subcutaneous credit card chips.
Have you heard of them? Apparently it’s possible to get your credit card details on a chip and injected into you to save having to carry a card around. Or so I have heard. Some of them are also a bit worried that when we microchip our pets we are normalising this behaviour and eventually humans will be required to be chipped, and this is the “mark of the beast”.
I have NO IDEA what what the “mark of the beast” actually will look like. But as I cheerfully wrote off most of the book of revelation as not relevant for me today, I had that single thought; maybe it is relevant for me today? Maybe the mark of the beast is more subtle right now in my life.
What if today we are marked by what we do and what we think?
The mark is subtle and harder to spot than something physical but by my actions I am marking myself and what I follow. Do I follow selfish desires or do I make choices to better this world?
I have noticed in literature that hands often symbolise actions, what we do with our hands refers to how we act. Our heads can refer to our minds, our thinking patterns. So I wonder if today we need to beware the mark of the beast in what we think and what we do.
When we think negatively are we believing Gods words or something else? Are we growing good in our minds or bad?
What we believe marks us. What we do marks us.
When I lie people will start to know me as the lier. When I make an effort to be helpful people will start to know me as helpful.
How are you marking yourself today?
KG
PS - please enjoy the above youtube clip showing microchipping in humans
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