September 18, 2014
Hall of Fame
Fox
News hosted a panel discussion on how deserving, or undeserving, today’s tarnished
sports figures are to be in the hall of fame. Justifying the lack of role
models one commentator remarked, “Ok, so what you are saying is that it’s the hall
of fame, not the hall of saints.” I’ve got to laugh and wonder who exactly he
expects to find in the hall of saints. “He will not always accuse, nor will he
harbor his anger forever; he does not treat us as our sins
deserve or repay us according to our iniquities” (Psalm 103:9-10 NIV).
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Gail;
-----History moves like a classical symphony. You can either loose yourself within its forest of sounds, or you can discover in all their interrelationships frameworks of movements which together form the story of the whole piece. Our generation and the generations around us and several before us are embedded in a particular historical framework developing since the Black Death snapped the religious cord weaving a constraint around Western mentality. It was nowhere near like that mentality scattered immediately. This tightly knit weave of dependence upon thought about God for our righteousness and tyrannies alike has been centuries unraveling. And the movement of this historical framework is simple: replace God with man. The climax of the movement will be the anti-Christ, a man so invested in his own authority that he accepts Satan himself as the conductor of it. And as all lies are a twist of the truth, the ultimate, indelible authority is indeed a man sitting at the top - Jesus. It’s just that these two have opposite relationships with the rest of men.
----- Christ’s relationship is that of understanding, forgiveness, guidance unto righteousness, from the strength of growing intimacy. These are all procedural elements meant to function amongst mankind against the effects of his over-abundant errors. For humanity not to rise up and massacre itself, understanding is imperative. Anyone intent upon knifing his offender in the back has the chance of making a neighbor by forgiveness, instead, through understanding that his offender is just like himself - miserably erroneous. Knowing your own faultiness is a mission for converting hostility into benevolence through delivering forgiveness on the silver platter of the understanding that you are no better than your offender. In fact, you co-exist in a treacherous jungle. Working together there raises flocks and crops for survival rather than turning one another into rabid wolves trampling the land under perpetual battles.
-----Eventually the world will enjoy peace. But for now, in this developing framework of human arrogance, there is no such thing as understanding. There is even less than no such thing as forgiveness. By setting himself upon the authoritative throne for validating new public attitudes and crucifying old ones, man’s pomp is dismissing all the angels bearing Christ’s peace and is inviting the demons bearing Satan’s war. Humanists will no more admit this than Hitler would’ve admitted his vision to be about atrocity rather than millennial bliss. Those who have fought and murdered their way to the top of the authority structure in no way are going to be benevolent with anything at all detrimental to their obtaining even more authority. They are God now. And forgiveness and understanding are sin.
-----We think the Hall of Fame is just a sport place. We think football is just a game. But football involves too many fibers of that old, broken cord for mankind’s new god to rest comfortably. Far too many Americans enjoy it, throwing them open to its influences. Which is why Tim Tebow’s talent was ignored instead of developed. And is why Tony Dungi was publicly castigated, and RGIII was made to turn his T-shirt inside out (it read “Know Jesus-Know peace.) And is why Michael Sams was the most celebrated last round draft pick since Karl Mecklenberg. It is why every sin the public has been groomed to find revolting must absolutely not be forgiven. These sins are the paint of taint for ruining anything fibrous of that old chord.
-----It’s too late to reverse this movement. The authority of man over the public place is reaching towards that pinnacle upon which will sit the second most powerful of all men. Fortunately, the most powerful man will quickly return and kick him off it.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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