March 14, 2012
Being Counted
Yesterday the
activity on the Christian Ear was off the chart. Actually at first I thought it
was a glitch with the counter, but no, someone is going through old blogs. More
than likely my campaign opposition is sorting through old posts hoping to find something
disparaging that I may have said. I really do have to laugh, because if someone
is looking for dirt then they have to read through six years of Scripture and
Christian thoughts. We know the Word of God does not return void. “For the word of God is living and active.
Sharper than any double–edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and
spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.”
(Heb 4:12 NIV)
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Gail;
-----If your campaign opposition is digging for dirt in your blog treasury, you have a lot of preparing for all the dirt they will find. It is a difficult preparation to make, because you don’t know the dirt they will find; only they can find it. But you will make the preparation easier if you pay attention to the nature of their discovery.
-----Something said or written is like a little bag of marbles. Each marble came from somewhere in particular, and is in the bag because of its relationship with all of the other marbles. All of the marbles are held together by the unique context of the social thought and chatter of the time in which they were stated. Although this bag containing the marbles is not stated by the author, it is peculiarly part of the marble’s interrelationships with each other. In other words, even social climate proximate to the topic about which you carefully selected your marbles is intrinsically strung into the message of your marbles, either negatively or positively. Therefore, the most honest effort to understand what you said will bring to the examination of your marbles an equally thorough examination of the times in which you selected them. If such effort is not made, then there is no honesty in the effort to know what your selected marbles mean, and they will create double deceit in trying to portray to the public something other than what you meant.
-----Herein is the discovery of the dirt. For sure it isn’t your dirt. For sure it looks like your dirt, because only your marbles will be laid out there in front of everyone. But they won’t be in their bag. It doesn’t serve the dirt digger’s purpose. Only the marbles do. And that’s his dirt. The bag was also part of your message even though it was not one of your marbles. The message the marbles speak is now his, not yours. And that message shouts deceit.
-----So he will proudly wait for you to either deny saying what his arrangement of the marbles say, or for you to surrender to his point. With a smile on your face coming from the love in your heart hand him the rope. He will need it. Don’t give him either the defensiveness nor the surrender which he immediately wants, give him what people like him ultimately want - praise and approval for mental prowess. Yes mental prowess! That thing even the dumbest of humans use most skillfully to carve up their surroundings to fit their own likings. It is arguably the most natural thing mankind does, even more so than having sex like rabbits, or imbibing stuff for mood alteration, if not alcohol, then coffee, chocolate, or merely lots of food. There is nothing so laudable or extraordinary about being able to carve up one’s surroundings to fit his own tastes. No. Quite contrarily, all the real accolades are for those few who can search out the truth of their surroundings and make adjustments in themselves to fit those found truths. That is called humility. That is the first real ability of a true leader. And that must be your topic.
-----Don’t worry about the dirt they find. Let them show it proudly. After all, it is theirs. Even point it out a little, too, with a smile. It’ll help them with that rope you gave.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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