Ziklag R5.15 - Anti-Fragile

SOS, Clear Words, STWN and "There is only one attack the devil uses..."

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Without a clear word, there will be no boundary, for shared meaning is the seed of peace. cf Pr. 29:18

Wisdom is anti-fragile. cf Mt. 7.25

The first extraordinary power is momentum. cf Sun Tzu 5.13

From Today’s Stack

Still on the path to Pec Things 2024, which, having turned our house upside down this week, nonetheless is inspiring and changing my workspaces. Really looking forward to a summer of mixed writing, martial arts, landscaping, wood-working and preaching.

Catch Stop the White Noise tonight instead of its regularly scheduled time.

From the Archive

from Broken

I make no claim to some personal, grandiose insight into the deep and hidden things of God. I am no more than a child astride the hip of his mother. But her lullaby has been filled with Words that never change. Her song transcends time and space, culture and style, with Words of eternal meaning. She sings of an enemy, an ancient foe, whose guile and great might are armed with cruel hate. There is no equal to him in all the earth. So fierce is his warfare that with all human might there is nothing to be done. Soon were our loss effected! But my mother’s song is not only of the danger. She croons also of the valiant One, a man (and more than a man) who fights for us, whom God himself elected. Who is this? He is the King of Kings! Christ Jesus, Mighty Lord. The God who is **the Word**, the Word you can sink your faith into and never have it drown. He holds the field forever.

There is only one attack the devil uses to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ—remove Jesus. He does this by removing the way Jesus reigns: by removing Jesus’ Words. There is nothing new to this. He’s been a liar from the beginning. But he always tells the same lies. We can learn them. We can discern them. We don’t have to believe them. As the crow sweeps in to steal the seed, we can recognize his caw and learn to fight back by scattering the seed all the more.