God’s Symphony & A Warning

I’m sitting on my porch listening to God’s symphony.

Thunder takes the main stage. Rain drapes the silence like a soft blanket. Lightning lights up the venue—a starless sky brought to life by a song from the heavens.

It’s the elevator music of the angels while I climb one rung higher on the ladder toward Heaven.

Tonight I read Repentance and Confession by Saint Nektarios. This is my meditation:

Imagine an airtight container, sealed shut. A hose is attached. With each puff of air we release into it, a bubble is formed—displacing water within. At first, it’s subtle. But as more bubbles enter, the water retreats. Over time, the pressure builds. Eventually, it heats up. And finally—if left unchecked—it explodes.

Now understand: those air bubbles did not exist before. Man created them.

Such is the nature of sin in the universe—it is not neutral, but disruptive. It introduces disorder into what was ordered. Evil into what was good. Eve introduced the first bubble when she turned against the Will of God. Ever since, we’ve been releasing more air into the container—violating the laws of God, the fabric of existence.

But Christ came to release that pressure. The Perfect Man entered the container and showed us how to dissolve the bubbles we make. Through repentance—a true change of heart and mind—not just abstinence or guilt. And more: He showed us how to minimize the bubbles we make in the first place, through prayer, fasting, faithful labor, and love.

It is not merely a matter of a deity “forgiving” us as if by whim.

It is the physics of reality: entropy versus negentropy. Disorder versus divine order. When all things are divided at the end of time, we will align—by choice or consequence—with one or the other.

Eternal Heaven or eternal Hell.