Transcription
The truth is a complex mechanism. Especially in this world of social ills and disparaging views, and I do have the time and inclination to sit down and signal its workings to you. If we are going to succeed you’re going to have to trust me to do my job and focus yourself on yours, do you understand?
Now, if everything has to be black and white for you, we’ll do it that way. Thus, truth is relatively complex in the nature of elements that require historical simplification, structural interrelationships, and astronomical control. Yet upon analysis it is clear that there is a reason for each and every decision. On false worship paraded as piety, truth can at any time put on a cloak of amorality.
False worship [humility] has a form of godliness but far from the truth of God’s spirit. Humility is often abused word for political gain. The Pharisees and Sadducees accused Jesus on numerous occasions for not being humble but Christ did not come into the world to submit to a system he came down to dismantle, and build another one (John 2:19). From mission view, ‘he humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.’
In like manner to God's chosen, I meditated on all the survival tactics the first prophets and apostles had sent particularly their letters to the Colossians: Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. Colossians 2:18-19
Abraham’s journey begins with disaster in egypt
(Genesis 12:8 – 13:2) Bible Commentary provided by TOW Project
The initial result of Abraham’s journeys were not promising. There was fierce competition in the land (Genesis 12:6), and Abraham spent a long time trying to find a niche to occupy. (Genesis 12:8-9). Eventually, deteriorating economic conditions forced him to pull out entirely and take his family to Egypt, hundreds of miles away from the land of God’s promise. (Genesis 12:10)
Further study revealed Abraham’s wealth (Genesis 13:2) was due to royal gifts, even after his perceived dishonesty.
This incident dramatically indicates both the moral quandaries posed by great disparities in wealth and poverty and the dangers of losing faith in the face of such problems. Abraham and Sarah were fleeing starvation. It may be hard to imagine being so desperately poor or afraid that a family would subject its female members to sexual liaisons in order to survive economically, but even today millions face this choice.
the deepest doubt builds the strongest faith
On the account of our father of faith, Abraham’s journey, by whom we suggest a Post hoc, ergo propter hoc kind of coincidence, the moves he made were the ones required by necessity.
You don’t need to edit the past, learn to forgive yourself because coming down may sometimes showcase a dramatical shift from obedience and complete trust in God to doing things your way.
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Pharaoh berates Abraham for taking this course of action, yet God’s response to a later, similar incident (Genesis 20:7,17) shows more of compassion than judgment. By virtue of these encounters with the Two kings, on the event tending towards the later, Abraham received goodness and mercy all the days of his life and that of his descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand of the seashore. The symbolic path of mission embrace – Abraham’s wealth was due to royal gifts.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Amen!
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