Recently New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner got into
a shouting match with a Jewish constituent who confronted Weiner about his sexting
scandal and the hurt it must have caused his wife. Unable to shut the
constituent down, an angry Weiner got in his face and accused him of judging, “You are not superior to me. You are not my
God.” Weiner went on to call the constituent a jackass.
First let me say,
kudos the Jewish man for standing firm while shining a light on sexual
immorality.
Although Weiner is correct in that the man was not God, that
doesn’t mean that the Jewish man wasn’t sent by God. Jesus said, “…anyone who receives a righteous man
because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward.” (Matt
10:41b NIV)
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Gail;
-----I like to chew gum. But when it’s been chewed awhile it gets tough and makes your jaw hurt. Worse yet, it looses its flavor. I might as well chew on an old stick. Words are like that, too. And one of the words that has gotten the toughest and lost the most of its flavor is “righteous”. Busy people tend to spit it out after only one or two chomps.
-----Maybe that is because the scientific mindset slew the sense of “divine” with God while its sibling, insolence, pummeled all meaning from “morality” and left it in the ditch unconscious. Only religious people honor these words anymore for what they are, noting of course that “religious” is a bit over chewed, too.
-----”Righteous” and “righteousness” are still a couple of my favorite words. I cherish the flavor they once had of accordance with divine or moral law. Our Holy Father is correct in both propriety and reason from each and every one of His most basic elements to everything they all mean combined. He is the epitome of constructiveness, and His Son is the epitome of truly reflecting that. Those of us who live gathering knowledge of Him understand this and gather knowledge so we can be as much like Him as we are able to slay of our own insolence. For to be righteous is simply to behave right. And God defines right.
-----We are each like pixels in the great picture of what is right. None of us are it completely, yet. We desire to be. And we will be. But we are now each very incomplete. So, we reflect Him like a mosaic, not like a dot. That means for each of us to reflect Him properly, we must hold others around us in relationships like His Son would. This is righteousness. Nobody‘s behavior is fully it. Nobody’s knowledge fully defines it. It emerges amongst those who love it, where they are when they are.
-----Poor Weiner. He doesn’t get it. Like you say, the good Jewish man wasn’t God. But in that moment for what there was to address, he was being an appropriate element of God. He wasn’t judging anyone. He was simply trying to direct Weiner’s attention to what Weiner had closed his eyes: the indiscretion of filling an office of trust with a man of apparent untrustworthiness. For the matter of that moment, the Jewish man was very righteous.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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