“Those who trust in Jesus Christ are like Mount Zion which cannot be moved…..”. Reflecting on Jonathan’s article and using it to springboard a thought. The Christian needs to stand in Christ in a controlled, consistent and reliable manner. The fool, on the other hand, is always moving with hurried feet, elevates presence only when they are in need, and is always trying to move you through heightened emotional responses masquerading as righteous indignation. 5G warfare tries to make you feel like you need to do something. Mount Zion doesn’t need to do anything……it simply is……
It is the difference between motion driven by urgency and presence that governs by remaining. The Scriptures do not commend constant movement; they commend steadfastness under pressure.
Where I would sharpen the point is this: standing is not an aesthetic posture or a spiritual vibe. It is DISCIPLINE. It is spiritual work to refuse to be pulled into reaction, refuse to borrow heat for legitimacy, and refuse to confuse emotion with obedience. That is costly, which is why so few try.
As you say, the fool is always in motion. “He who hastens with his feet sins.”Motion feels powerful. It creates the illusion of agency. But agency rooted in panic is still captivity. Zion does not do nothing; it only does not do what fear demands.
Faithfulness in your hour looks less like proving righteousness and more like inhabiting it—slowly, visibly, without theatrics.
The framing around agency versus self-erasure cuts through a lot of the contemporary confusion about Christian response to cultural pressure. What landed for me was the distinction between endurance as passive suffering versus patience as active jurisdiction. I've noticed in my own community how the impulse to avoid conflict often gets dressed up as humility when it's really just abandonment of responsibility. The dissociation proxy concept is sharp too, where moral judgments get outsourced to algorithms and hashtags whle nobody actually owns the decision. That loop you described, where repentance becomes impossible because no one claims authorship, explains why reconciliation feels so elusive right now. The fifth-generation warfare lens makes sense of the exhaustion too - the system's designed to burn out contemplation before it can form into convicton.
What passes as humility in many spaces is not meekness but abdication. The refusal to exercise jurisdiction while telling ourselves we are being loving.
Patience, biblically, is not passive suffering but active containment. It is the strength to remain present, truthful, and responsible under pressure without collapsing into reaction or retreat.
Dissociation-by-proxy is one of the most corrosive features of the current zeitgeist. It infects everything. It seeds entire fields where there is no "I did this" for anyone to repent of. The death of reconciliation in a field of tares is inevitable.
Fifth-generation warfare is the exhaustion. The Accuser is not only silencing belief; the lies are fragments agency even in retreat. The field is flooded with stimulus until contemplation has no space to become conviction. Everything stays perpetually “in process,” which feels active but produces nothing.
What breaks the loop is not louder speech or harder postures. It is re-anchoring responsibility at your own, personal level. Someone has to be willing to say, “This is mine to decide, to bear, to answer for,” even if that clarity costs real suffering.
That kind of patience will be labeled "dangerous" in a culture addicted to diffusion. But it is the only posture that makes repentance, reconciliation, and actual peace possible. It is on Christianity as a whole, one by one, to reclaim this agency as the meaning of communion, or to die a death of endless orthodoxies stripped of the Spirit.
So, in summary, read the gospels, pray for those with whom you want to interact (scatter the seed), pray for the Holy Spirit to bring the words you are to say, be patient, don't argue that one is right, pray for sowing to occur, be patient. Pray.
I found this challenging to understand, probably because I don't know the lingo and have to contemplate many of the phrases.
You are saying, I think, that this world sets up 'morals' that sit on thin ice with no real substance other than taught opinion by educators and news media and social media?
That we know the truth and we should be confident and trust/know that the real work is done by the Holy Spirit?
Yes to prayer, patience, and trust in the Holy Spirit—but don't let patience become silent withdrawal. Faithful authorship speaks what is true, owns the moment that is yours, and leaves the field without needing to win, perform, or prove.
The problem isn’t that the world has morals. It’s that many are unowned: borrowed from consensus bias. Since no one owns the judgments, reconciliation stalls.
The Holy Spirit does the transforming work *through* people who are willing to remain present, forthright and impartial. Endless vagueness is absence of heart kicking the can down the road.
The same yesterday, today, and forever more. VDMA.
Thank you for the comment!
“Those who trust in Jesus Christ are like Mount Zion which cannot be moved…..”. Reflecting on Jonathan’s article and using it to springboard a thought. The Christian needs to stand in Christ in a controlled, consistent and reliable manner. The fool, on the other hand, is always moving with hurried feet, elevates presence only when they are in need, and is always trying to move you through heightened emotional responses masquerading as righteous indignation. 5G warfare tries to make you feel like you need to do something. Mount Zion doesn’t need to do anything……it simply is……
Alleluia.
Mount Zion is not passivity; it is weight.
It is the difference between motion driven by urgency and presence that governs by remaining. The Scriptures do not commend constant movement; they commend steadfastness under pressure.
Where I would sharpen the point is this: standing is not an aesthetic posture or a spiritual vibe. It is DISCIPLINE. It is spiritual work to refuse to be pulled into reaction, refuse to borrow heat for legitimacy, and refuse to confuse emotion with obedience. That is costly, which is why so few try.
As you say, the fool is always in motion. “He who hastens with his feet sins.”Motion feels powerful. It creates the illusion of agency. But agency rooted in panic is still captivity. Zion does not do nothing; it only does not do what fear demands.
Faithfulness in your hour looks less like proving righteousness and more like inhabiting it—slowly, visibly, without theatrics.
Appreciate the engagement.
The framing around agency versus self-erasure cuts through a lot of the contemporary confusion about Christian response to cultural pressure. What landed for me was the distinction between endurance as passive suffering versus patience as active jurisdiction. I've noticed in my own community how the impulse to avoid conflict often gets dressed up as humility when it's really just abandonment of responsibility. The dissociation proxy concept is sharp too, where moral judgments get outsourced to algorithms and hashtags whle nobody actually owns the decision. That loop you described, where repentance becomes impossible because no one claims authorship, explains why reconciliation feels so elusive right now. The fifth-generation warfare lens makes sense of the exhaustion too - the system's designed to burn out contemplation before it can form into convicton.
You named it.
What passes as humility in many spaces is not meekness but abdication. The refusal to exercise jurisdiction while telling ourselves we are being loving.
Patience, biblically, is not passive suffering but active containment. It is the strength to remain present, truthful, and responsible under pressure without collapsing into reaction or retreat.
Dissociation-by-proxy is one of the most corrosive features of the current zeitgeist. It infects everything. It seeds entire fields where there is no "I did this" for anyone to repent of. The death of reconciliation in a field of tares is inevitable.
Fifth-generation warfare is the exhaustion. The Accuser is not only silencing belief; the lies are fragments agency even in retreat. The field is flooded with stimulus until contemplation has no space to become conviction. Everything stays perpetually “in process,” which feels active but produces nothing.
What breaks the loop is not louder speech or harder postures. It is re-anchoring responsibility at your own, personal level. Someone has to be willing to say, “This is mine to decide, to bear, to answer for,” even if that clarity costs real suffering.
That kind of patience will be labeled "dangerous" in a culture addicted to diffusion. But it is the only posture that makes repentance, reconciliation, and actual peace possible. It is on Christianity as a whole, one by one, to reclaim this agency as the meaning of communion, or to die a death of endless orthodoxies stripped of the Spirit.
So, in summary, read the gospels, pray for those with whom you want to interact (scatter the seed), pray for the Holy Spirit to bring the words you are to say, be patient, don't argue that one is right, pray for sowing to occur, be patient. Pray.
I found this challenging to understand, probably because I don't know the lingo and have to contemplate many of the phrases.
You are saying, I think, that this world sets up 'morals' that sit on thin ice with no real substance other than taught opinion by educators and news media and social media?
That we know the truth and we should be confident and trust/know that the real work is done by the Holy Spirit?
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Yes to prayer, patience, and trust in the Holy Spirit—but don't let patience become silent withdrawal. Faithful authorship speaks what is true, owns the moment that is yours, and leaves the field without needing to win, perform, or prove.
The problem isn’t that the world has morals. It’s that many are unowned: borrowed from consensus bias. Since no one owns the judgments, reconciliation stalls.
The Holy Spirit does the transforming work *through* people who are willing to remain present, forthright and impartial. Endless vagueness is absence of heart kicking the can down the road.
Thank you.
Yes, contemplation is part of the discipline. Good work