This person begins everyday with the minimal thoughts about how their physical presence will get interpreted once its been decided the world might see them.
Yet do they concern themselves with how others will see their skin covered spiritual man as if there physical appearance could somehow become a distraction?
Though maybe not totally aware of it at all times, they've allowed themselves to be compelled by the daily bombardments of images and words that have saturated the airwaves. Both of which has helped shape and form the person they choose to present to the world each day.
Yet does this person ever concern themselves with the images "Their own" physical presence also broadcast to that same world as if it DOES have an all but silent voice? And what is that God says is common to man?
1 Cor 10:13
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man NIV
These images most of which have literally been "Modeled" by someone other than themselves and the words they've listened to have been well thought out in the not so clinical world of psychology. Both within the hope of stimulating specific types of thoughts and responses.
Do they only use words that work or words that hurt or hinder the things God would otherwise have influence those that have been called of this world unto the higher consideration of eternal life?
This person only vaguely contemplates the things about their person that might repel someone else, because their main focus is on the things that will hopefully "Attract" the attention of others.
This person has been conditioned to rely heavily on the Hope that others have also seen, heard and believed the same things they too have been practically been spoon fed by their surrounding world.
Sound like anybody you also "Know' that does not take or keep a "Truthful" inventory which reports on the affects of their physical presence while in this world? A physical presence which was intended to reflect on the spiritual presence within a man. Talk about bending reflections or cooking the "Books"...
Rev 13:8
All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast — all whose names have not been written in the book of life belonging to the Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. NIV
The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
NIV
I consider the essence (spirit) of a persons "Attention" to be neutral in the absence of a specific "Desire".
One of the things this world has nearly mastered is the power that's found in statistics often referred to as "Probability". Not as though ALL people in this world are somehow being forced to do things they don't want to, but more pointedly the things people do nearly by "Default" and that due primarily to "Affects" this world does have on them where otherwise the words of God do NOT?
We can accept suggestions such as "Sound affects, Visual Affects or maybe Ground effects, but how about something being ignored such as "Word Affects"? One step further in that same direction would be to ask the same thing about "Truth Affect"?
If we were looking back through history it might seem as if there were certain rules, laws or principles which protected the English language when it came down to the "wide" acceptance and use of a "New' word being introduced into this language.
Not so much these days as if every word has found a new home.
Have you ever stopped to think just how much of who we are as a people has been embedded in the words we use? Somehow I think God does...
Gen 11:5-7
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other." NIV
Man has proven the things he does are primarily centered around his "Sense" (awareness) of his "Own" accomplishments. Those accomplishments also come in many different shapes and sizes.
Matt 12:36-37
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."
NIV
If there be a heavenly language (which I firmly believe there is) what does it sound like? How does one work out the spelling and grammar of those heavenly words and who will interpret them if NOT the same Holy spirit which heard them?
Exactly how does a desire of the "Heart" then become a word 'Spoken"and who watches over that process?
How loud are the "Groaning's" or growing pains within a man and who can sooth them?
How does the abundance of a mans heart then speak? How does what's in a mans heart then find its way into the realm of this world?
Does mankind only communicate through the use of words?
What is the significance in the difference between the spelling of Sara verse Sarah? Even further Abram and Abraham?
Obviously enough that God changed their names in the telling of their life story.
Why would the prophetic Psalmist suggest what he had to say as though it were a riddle?
Ps 49:4
I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle :
NIV
Why did Jesus make the statement that He spoke to some in parables? Was He only referring to those at that time of his presenting those words? Or is He an equal opportunity Lord and Savior as though true towards ALL that have sinned and fallen short of his Glory?
If the spoken truth is perceived as being only applicable to those back then, how then can we today become partakers of those "Same" promises made back then? Exactly who are the "THEM" Jesus IS referring to?
Matt 13:13-14
This is why I speak to them in parables :
"Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.
In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
"'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.
NIV
Could it be that we as said "Believers" who are In Christ were intended to "Understand" what we hear and see by way of our hearts? And how much of that has to do with obtaining the "Mind of Christ" or the "Outside" possibility that our own mind needs to be renewed?
And what is discernment, intuition and insight? What are we "looking" into if NOT into what does matter to our soul "Eternally"?
Yet if we refuse to hear anything about our hearts that's also True, how can we have any true Hope of Hearing what needs to be heard and seeing what needs to be seen while here? Is that ONLY Gods job description while seated at rest in Heaven on His throne?
And what are the gifts that are of and from the Spirit of God intended for? God alone? How does the will of God brideg the gap of what man refuses to accept as the Truth?
What did God take from in order to give what was been given to men? Wasn't it God to whom ALL things belong also the One that gave those gifts to "Men"?
Think on it this way, since the invent of media and the more complete implementation in it being broadcast, how much affect would you suppose radio and TV have had on the psychology (reasoning) of mankind?
How much has those things negatively affected the spiritual mans "Insight and Discernment"? Negative to mean 'Taken" away from Godliness?
More specifically in Post modern civilization where most believers of this day have become convinced such gifts are no longer needed today?
How many times do you have to watch or hear the same thing before you hear it ringing like the appropriately named "Jingle" in your head?
If you can allow it, has religion found and gone the "Way" of the Jingle? More specifically "Christianity"?
Everybody likes to suggest God is a Matter and the master of our hearts, yet if He is why do we seem to care so little about what He has to say not only "About" our hearts but also all that we Believe" to be "True" which does have to do with the concerns and the condition of our hearts?
Matt 13:15
For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
NIV
If you don't see yourself as having a sickness or a poor condition, are you the type of listener that only goes to the physician once the condition has become "Undeniable" and in it's latter and sickly stages of progression?
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