Ziklag T5.14 - Not All Roads

SOS, There is No Neutral, and Dirty Old Crow Tricks

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Bad people do bad things. Good men know that it will not last. cf Pr. 29:16

Not all roads lead to good. cf Mt. 7.23

That which is infinite is incomprehensible. That which is limitless has no clear definition. So, also, the extraordinary, unseen, cannot be separated from the normal, the seen. cf Sun Tzu 5.11

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The Summary Purpose of Man

Solomon’s gift of Proverbs is the result of his God-given insight into Torah, which he effectively translated into universal application for the common God-fearing man. He asserts as a central tenet that all economy is cause and effect, a framework of value-dependence. This flies in the face of the “modern” hypothesis, which itself amounts to little more than a willful attempt to undermine the public morals under God by means of counterfeiting.

The “free” market, when it arises, does so because fate, chance, luck culture and nature are all subordinate to the covenant of Creation under God. As creatures, the God-given polarity of personal duty to the greater whole and private care for one’s own are the summary purpose of Man.

Private Property and the Integrity of Duty are not “value-free” concepts. The hypothesis of Relativity breaks down at the observable fact that there is no such thing as neutral outside stories about contexts that narrow until the factors of Truth no longer come to bear on the results.

From the Archive

from Broken

Christians are losing faith in our age and giving up on the Church because the kind of Christianity the Church is preaching is Broken. Our children are leaving and heading to the after-party somewhere else because bent version of Christianity isn’t capable of giving them a Jesus worth believing. A superficial spirituality filled with words that are **not** the words of the Bible is a counterfeit Christianity.

The old crow never tells you he is stealing your corn. He knows that you know that your first love is the Words of and about Jesus. He knows you know that you need these Words, the Scriptures, to remain a Christian. But he also knows you are human. He knows that you are forgetful, distracted, and more than a little lazy.

He’s a one trick pony, but it’s a darned good trick. With a slight of hand, he fans into flame a fire in your heart that he tells you is “for Jesus,” but he slips into your fire fuel for something else—**anything** else. He even doesn’t mind if you call your shiny, new golden cow “Jesus,” because he knows that once you’ve started fueling your faith with something other than the real Jesus’ Words, then it is only a matter of time before you wake up to find your faith beat up, burned out, broken, and without a clue how it happened.

He knows at that moment, you’ll be ready to believe anything in the world he tells you, especially if it gives you a reason to leave your messed up excuse for a religion behind. “It’s not your faith in God that’s broken,” he says. “It’s Christianity.”

“Christianity is the problem,” is the devil’s sermon. “The Bible is the problem,” is the demonic promise. “Even Jesus would never have wanted it to be this way,” the liar says. “Even Jesus would be proud of you for walking away before it gets any worse.”

Sadly, all too many people listen to the lies, and do.