When my children were young they would occasionally try to boss each
other around and I would have to step in and remind them of their position…that
neither of them were the parent, nor the adult. I now find myself in an
interesting position where a colleague wants to boss me around, which then
triggers the childhood reaction that says, ‘You’re
not my boss and you can’t tell me what to do’. In time we may get our
differences worked out, but I can’t help but secretly wish that God would step in
and remind both of us of our positions.
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Gail;
-----It’s a little more difficult now, isn’t it? Wishing God would step in and remind you of your positions would not do you as much good as seeing Him do it. And anyone in a tussle with another can see that. You just have to use eyes that see.
-----Of course you’re not going to see God actually stand between you two and iron out all the wrinkles. Our little hearts and minds being too weakened by all their sins, faults, and frailties wouldn’t hold up to that. Yet, you can see an aspect of Him step into the fray and do this.
-----”What’s truth, man?” How do you know something is true? Who‘s to say? This rhetoric was kicked into the square of public philosophy hoping to lobotomize culture of its long founded traditions, especially God. Does asking a question too big to answer (knowing God won’t immediately answer) actually make you able to say for yourself what truth is? And even if it’s too big for its asker to answer, is it not too big for another to answer? I like to work on this inquisitive rhetoric from its last to its first.
-----“Who’s to say what is true?” Beginning with a simple process of elimination, always the first step of scientific research, we can say the person who must ask the question is immediately not the one to say what is true. That is simple logic. Nothing can both be true and false at the same time in the same sense. He either knows truth and would be telling it, or he does not know truth and so is asking this question. One or the other, but not both are true at this time in this sense of truth’s being. This doesn’t find who’s to say, it just eliminates the question's asker from the possibility.
-----We know who’s to say what’s true! Guys, we’ve seen! It’s Jesus Christ! Then that answers the first two questions. You know something is true by its alignment with the Word Jesus gave, because alignment with God and His effects is the definition of truth. Now the world is one of His effects, so some truth must be found in its natural alignments too. Paul said what could be known about God is plainly evident in what He created. But this gets tricky, so it takes love to understand.
-----He created the world perfect and called it very good. In a state of total and perfect truth, all of its effects happening by the nature God created (Sister Nature, not Mother Nature) aligned perfectly with His will, His plan, purposes, and pleasure. But the Snake breathed a lie into man’s ear and man’s soul produced the lie's distorted physical effects into nature where they became distorted causes for more twisted effects until multiplication filled the world with deceit. Not being imperfect, God no longer is the pattern upon which the earth’s twisted causes and effects align. Oh! The pattern He laid for the physical world (its foundation) is still valid and there, and some things do align with it; deceit just obscures this! Love is the fog light cutting through deceit to the truth. You can’t change the bossy. But you can respond, and love always has a response tied to the actual heart of the issue by illuminating the issue’s real needs for the purpose of caring for them. Focus, focus, kind and gentle, continuous, analytical, animated, loving focus upon those needs will dilute bossy and begin to raise truth from deceit’s obscuring fog.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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