When I was a kid my brother made this underground fort. It was a hiding place, a refuge, a secret place. This thing was 6ft deep by 10 ft by 10 ft. It had plywood over the top and grass placed back over it so it looked like a normal part of an alley way in rual Indiana where we grew up. You could only reach it from our side of the fence and the fence was curled up for quick entrance..to help that along the entrance was sloped and lined with cardboard so you could just dive in. And dive in we did....always running from something or somebody. You really thought you had the world by the tail when at 7 years old you would get some friends, go the edge of the alley way and take those little white refrigerator bombs that could snarl up any daytime traffic..rush hour or otherwise. So...you get some direct hits...tires screeching..people yelling, getting out and surveying there windsheilds...overeasy and scrambled. By that time you want to call 911...cause your laughing so hard you cant breath! Nothing can prepare you for the sight over your shoulder of a menacing face filled with rage...coming after you. AH the fort..you jump the fence and disappear as if by magic,listening to the footsteps of a confounded taxpayer breathing out threats and bewilderment...of where could they be?We take ourselves so serious these days...just because we know so much..the way government should run...the way economics should flow...the way others should behave, look and live. The way God acts in his dealings with us and the issues of HIS CREATION. I wonder if i have become so smart in my systematic approach to everything...theology..people...life....HIM,that i havent noticed he enjoys TEARING DOWN my systems. The high preists and religious people had such a system...there was even some of it in place by God that needed to be torn down.The monolithical preistly system. The whole thing! Jesus came to destroy it. To seek and save that which was lost..yes people...aka mans relationship with GOD. Please take a few moments to read this.MT 27.51 at that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. thimk about that. Sometimes HE MUST RIP APART things that seperate you from him my friend...things your hiding behind,,,trusting in ..valuable things that may seem good..but not his best for you. Yes I know it seems impossible for it to be him but that is exactly what the Pharisses thought..their beautiful..lovely temple...... curtain. Destroyed. This happened the very moment JESUS died. He became the curtain....the way! You could only get to God if you went passed that curtain...and only the High priest could go there!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what..and TEARING DOWN from top to bottom signifies the impossibility of that happening by human hands.What is he doing,,,God.Jesus..tearing down in my life right now..ask yourself that. 1 peter 4 .1 think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way.Then you will be able to live out your days free to pursue what GOD wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want. WELL eventually our fort was find out and torn down. peace