Grace being spoken of and assumed extended under the ruse of the type of person who wants to be considered Graceful or Gracious? What about people thought and said to be using "Tactful" speech?
Tactician noun
- a person who uses a carefully planned strategy to achieve a specific end.
Who in and Of this world also knows much more than they too have been told about an expected "End" without the consideration that also speaks to exactly Who it is that also validates ANY prophecy?
I can't speak for you, yet I've come to know better over the course of time many liars as well there's very little difference in the minds of most who do tell lies in terms of a "Scheme" verses a "Strategy".
These are only two of many words in our language often used interchangeably. Even further words used to somehow express what is rarely accepted as True or Absolute also relative to words being accepted at face value such as "Cause, Affect, Effect and other words such as "Because". Is it even possible words such as these can make an impression upon our minds without offering well thought word picture as an accompanying Image?
I can still remember only a couple of instances (the rest are blurred for some reason) when I as a child would ask my parents 'Why" they had laid down the "Law" in a certain fashion ONLY they seemed to understand? How many of you also met with the type response, "Because, I said so"! Because what?
They had said so and that was supposed to clarify "Exactly" what? Just think today about whenever someone references the proverbial and otherwise mysterious "They" we continue to hear from in antiquity? As if the immediate talking point that "Was" in play had mysteriously reached an abrupt conclusion, yet based on WHAT Facts or truth?
Just think what something as simple as "God said SO" might have at least stirred within many today early on? Instead of it being the type of moment when what had seemed like an endless flow of words or word pictures which simply dried up like the some dead lake or sea?
Who's to say how anything will turn OUT if the right things HAD OF been said in times past? Doesn't opportunity also need to be given a CHANCE encounter in terms of the Birthing of something within us all that may have NOT found the opportunity to speak otherwise?
These are only two of many words in our language often used interchangeably. Even further words used to somehow express what is rarely accepted as True or Absolute also relative to words being accepted at face value such as "Cause, Affect, Effect and other words such as "Because". Is it even possible words such as these can make an impression upon our minds without offering well thought word picture as an accompanying Image?
I can still remember only a couple of instances (the rest are blurred for some reason) when I as a child would ask my parents 'Why" they had laid down the "Law" in a certain fashion ONLY they seemed to understand? How many of you also met with the type response, "Because, I said so"! Because what?
They had said so and that was supposed to clarify "Exactly" what? Just think today about whenever someone references the proverbial and otherwise mysterious "They" we continue to hear from in antiquity? As if the immediate talking point that "Was" in play had mysteriously reached an abrupt conclusion, yet based on WHAT Facts or truth?
Just think what something as simple as "God said SO" might have at least stirred within many today early on? Instead of it being the type of moment when what had seemed like an endless flow of words or word pictures which simply dried up like the some dead lake or sea?
Who's to say how anything will turn OUT if the right things HAD OF been said in times past? Doesn't opportunity also need to be given a CHANCE encounter in terms of the Birthing of something within us all that may have NOT found the opportunity to speak otherwise?
How exactly does a person speak out of Love to a separate person who rarely Trust? This same lack of Trust also due to what type of Reason? The "reason" leading up an otherwise lengthy explanation maybe? I'm of the opinion the word Reason in its more often accepted usage is FAR too ambiguous.
I'm one of those type thinkers who's of the mindset or "Stronghold" that holds OUT until satisfied with the explanation being offered.
In terms of trust or "Trusting" what someone has said, why the is there ever the need to have to reach back and borrow from the origin of the Greeks? As if in doing so will somehow hopefully "Retrace" the depth of meaning of whatever is being stated (has been said) is also the Gospel? Could you imagine debating with your Mom or Dad or school teacher growing up and trying to reference a Greek, German or Latin Lexicon or "Concordance"? Afterwards to be defined as a HEALTHY debate?
In my youth I would hear people suggesting in many different ways, "Mean what you say and say what you mean"! Sounds easy right, but what if you find yourself surrounded by opposition at nearly every turn having said what you do have to say as if "Meaningful"? The shorter version might be, "Be a man of your word(s)"! The same situations where you've stated your case and still find yourself at odds with the One you're hoping to Convey a MEANINGFUL message to? Meaning , "Maybe" yet meaningful to who and "Why"?
Soon to discover you'll quite possibly end up lonely using this type of protocol as people today often thought to be good listeners are only listening intently for the sake of their own "Defense" or information that might prove to work out for their own benefit.
But what if the world around us would have YOU to believe YOU are the ONLY one who understands what You're saying? Isn't there some clinical diagnosis and acceptance of same for this condition? Some might even suggest a "Dis-ease" or mental Dis-order"? Maybe the word "Delusional" might seem "Fitting" to some?
What does being Culled Out mean to you? What does being considered the Called Out mean to others of a different persuasion?
If you were asked, "Are cultures or societies designed by way of forethought and planning or more by way of an evolutionary process where a group of people fly by the seat of their britches? Further to suggest an environment that's been "Intentionally" structured by way of having only one of two choices? Those two choices being to either "Accept" or "Reject" specific ideologies?
And if a persons answer were "Yes" to both or "Yes AND No" wouldn't that also qualify an "Ambiguous" response by definition? It would if "Yes and No" were the Only two acceptable responses, right? And what might a melting Pot of idea's look like to You? Are we also talking about forging metal, Mulligan Stew or the strength and the combined strength of ALL that a person believes to be simultaneously TRUE?
Have you ever listened intently to or "Felt" the energy in the room when someone is considered being "Grilled" (Cross examined or Crucified) in a court of Law? What would you consider as the appropriate metaphor in terms of the source of heat? The anticipation of the hearers who are waiting to hear and judge for themselves what is True or Not? What about the visual affect of a word picture of someone being thrown into the Lions Den of Public Opinion?
Think of a Jury that's been pooled? What would you "Predict" the verdict would be if a murder trial jury had been pooled from a panel of nothing but "Convicted Murders" waiting on death row?
Much like what I call the cowards way out of a complicated conversation whenever a fruitless exercise reaches their conclusion by way of 'Agreeing" to "Disagree"? Some might suggest "Well at least they Tried", yet in my view the more accurate assessment would read, "Yes, you too were Tried, but you were also found guilty having failed at the task at hand!
How many have read or heard, "Love never fails"? Are those simple words to be considered false? What about the minds that try to "Interpret" them as God intended within any God Given moment?
In terms of ALL that a person also believes God to be, would Him being Truthful in every matter be at the Top of the lengthy list that might attempt to somehow express all that God is?
Exactly how does a person describe their home town as a fallen city to its inhabitants while trying not to blend in with the drunken crowd. sw
What comes to mind when you hear the word "Infrastructure"? I would like to think "Images" such as Roads, Water Systems, Electrical grids, Government buildings, Railways and Airports etc. All the above are tangible, things built with human hands which were intended at their "Introduction" to somehow serve the common "Good", right?
Basically once their practicality and day to day usefulness has been realized over the course of time these things seem to develop the tendency to somehow "Fade" into the background in the nearly blinding light of everything else that comes along as if New and Improved.
If Jesus were seen as in a New and Improved light today, what would that Light also look like as compared? In terms of applied proper context why would a reader of the passage below need the entire scenario somehow be "Recreated" before they 'Understood" the essence (heart) of what the author is suggesting? What if the one reading were to simply first "Answer the questions he's asking to then accept the response at"Face Value"?
Why do many criminals get away with crimes beyond being Tried? Because of the lack of Evidence? Or because no WITNESS can truly testify to the Crime because THEY weren't PHYSICALLY there meaning "Present"?
1 Cor 9:3-12
This is my defense to those who sit in judgment on me. 4 Don't we have the right to food and drink? Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas? Or is it only I and Barnabas who must work for a living?
Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its grapes? Who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk? 8 Do I say this merely from a human point of view ? Doesn't the Law say the same thing?
For it is written in the Law of Moses: "Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain." Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
Surely he says this for us, doesn't he? Yes, this was written for us, because when the plowman plows and the thresher threshes, they ought to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap a material harvest from you? 12 If others have this right of support from you, shouldn't we have it all the more?
NIV
Have you ever allowed your self to be questioned at Length about "Any" talking point to the point of fatigue? How about questions about God or the One God sent to mankind with a specific and intentional message? To then add to that thought a message sent that is far "Beyond Questioning"? Especially when considering exactly who it is that's being asked the question?
Have you ever heard the phrase used when a topic has been "Talked to Death"? To further suggest a Dead Topic"? Wouldn't it also be interesting to reach an "Absolute" understanding as to why anyone would NOT enjoy talking to other people? Especially if you like myself are the type who chooses to believe there is a "Reason" for everything as if simultaneously discussing different "Seasons"?
What if and whenever the spirit of God were Truly being discussed, someone told you there are "Seasons" of God? One of those seasons being the season of His "Mercy"? Is there a difference between the two without "Outside" input?
People will more often talk more about whatever it is they have a direct "Interest" in, right? Would it also be a safe assumption to consider what most people are NOT interested in Talking about are topics that easily "Stir Up" mixed emotions?
Have you ever considered mixed emotions as you might a strong mixed 'Drink"? I suppose if there are those who have been more wonderfully saved than others, but what if talking about mixed drink the person you're talking to had NEVER been drunk? Never tasted or even smelled Alcohol or other mind altering substances?
Would this make and/or qualify them as if closed minded or simply someone thought to have made NOTHING but "Good" decisions to date?
I remember having a conversation with a wise man about people in general terms. As do most people we did the dance with words until the conversation reached a certain "Pitch". I could tell he wanted to divert the conversation.
He tried by stating, "I Love people and I Love conversing, yet there are three type of personalities I will NOT debate anything meaningful with and in no particular order they would be Preachers, Politicians, Policeman or Painters.
I was a little taken back at first because this brush stroke seemed a little broad and had a slightly rebellious tone in terms of my understanding of authority. The one personality mentioned that struck me as odd was the Painter. I told this man I can kind of understand the first 3 in terms of making a connection, but why the "Painter"?
He paused and said with an odd grin, "Honestly, it's very simple because every painter I've "Personally" had dealings with at the "End" of the day turned out to be a "Drunk"!
I then asked Him why he thought ALL painters were drunks? He said "Well I don't, but what I do know is that until I meet one that's not, why should I doubt "My" theory"!
I leave you to decide what an "Open Ended" conversation sounds like and how same might somehow affect others with this one question, 'Why does anyone "Need" closure if they're truly always searching for the Truth with all of their heart mind soul and strength?
Hab 2:12-16
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime!
Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people's labor is only fuel for the fire,
that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,
as the waters cover the sea.
"Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,
so that he can gaze on their naked bodies. You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn! Drink and be exposed!
The cup from the LORD's right hand is coming around to you,
and disgrace will cover your glory. NIV
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