Coifi is Pretty Awesome (unlike Covfefe) - Eliza Colbert

    People need God. As Christians, we recognize this fact. It is apparent that there is a “God-shaped hole” in every person that nothing else can fill. Even those who do not recognize this experience the effects of it. The high priest Coifi certainly did. He was the most devout man in all of Britain, yet he knew something was missing. As he says, “‘I have long been sensible that there was nothing in that which we worshipped; because the more diligently I sought after truth in that worship, the less I found it’” (Bede 2.13). The high priest, the man who devoted everything to his gods, could tell that something was wrong. Before he had even heard of the gospel, he felt the lack of truth in his life.

    When we seek happiness, truth, goodness, whatever you want to call it, when we look for it in anything other than God, we will come away disappointed. In fact, Coifi says that the more he looked for truth, the less he found it. That statement struck me. We look to fill the hole within in a variety of things. When they don’t fill us like we expect them to, we try harder. But, the more we try, the more we realize that these things are not what we are looking for. God is the only thing that will bring lasting satisfaction and peace. He is what we really needed all along.

    One final note, I thought it was awesome that, not only did Coifi volunteer to destroy the temple, but he did it in a way that showed his complete abandonment of his old religion. Priests weren’t allowed to carry weapons or ride anything but a mare. What does Coifi do? He straps on a sword, grabs a spear, and jumps on a stallion. He then gallops through town, charges into the temple, and throws the spear at the idols! If that’s not awesome, I don’t know what is.

P.S. I commented on Anna Grace’s and Joshua’s posts.