June 21, 2013
Storm Warning
Some people who thought they could ride out a category 1 hurricane
didn’t heed evacuation warnings. One man who suffered loss tried to blame the
weather service for his failing to take action by saying, “No way was this a Category 1!” I can imagine those who fail to
respond to the warnings of the Second Coming will also be looking for someone
to blame. “Now, brothers, about times and
dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that
the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While
people are saying, ‘Peace and safety,’ destruction will come on them suddenly,
as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” (1 Thess
5:1-3 NIV)
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An excellent parallel for the world we live in, spiritually speaking. Billy Graham has a new-ish book called Storm Warning that addresses how a christian responds to the turbulent moral abyss we are facing every day. I figure this post may be related to the book, but if not you should check into it.
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Gail;
-----What can you say to someone who needs warned about the perils of doing the very things he loves to do? Harder yet is warning about believing the things loved to believe. They perceive they are being attacked. And it looks like they are, too. Therefore, it is easy to wind up feeling like you are attacking when you are truly just warning. And when that happens enough times, soon, when you truly have a warning for someone, you keep it to yourself because you don’t like attacking others. Life twists easily.
-----The attack is actually the silence. We work, play, eat, and sleep in the security of our perceptions. And that is hugely important to us, because our perceptions are all that we know. How could we possibly do otherwise? If the next foot of reality turns right, while all the perceptions you’ve assembled say, “Turn left!” you have no knowledge of the right turn. We call the results a wreckage. Sitting within that, anyone who knew of the right turn and did not tell us we perceive to be an assailant. And that perception correlates pretty well with reality.
-----So how do we not be assailant’s while being perceived as assailants for issuing proper warnings? I don’t think there really is a way, because perceptions need not logic, and most proceed from not logic. People perceive what they want. You have the same right.
-----So perceive everything as real as possible by applying the best logic as possible to the Bible and real circumstances. Know it, feel it, and live it as real. Your very thinking and feeling should take an aspect of caution about circumstances. Since non-verbal language is the greater part of our communications, and since non-verbal language extends from what we truly think and feel, caution will become a part of it. You will speak in sense before you even open your mouth. Then adding a good deal of respect and honor to the truth you have to say will possibly get you a hearing.
-----But the most important thing to remember is that the perception your listener takes with him is not your responsibility. Your responsibility is to communicate as honestly and purposefully as you can, and as often as situations call for it.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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