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Just Another Demagogue
That’s what I don’t want to be. I don’t want to be just another defensive, must-always-be-right, proud, self-righteous demagogue. This world has more than its fair share of those as it is. I want to always be willing to listen, and always be willing to admit it when I’m wrong. I don’t ever want to stop growing closer to Father, because the moment we stop growing, we’re bound to die.
One can go out on the internet and do a google search on almost any topic. Pick one. Salvation? Hell? Faith? Love? Choose any one you like. You can turn up literally hundreds of little preachers and “teachers” who claim to have it all figured out. The more I learn, the more convinced I am of how little I know. The old saying is right, “the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
Every time Father shows me something new, I realize how little I really know about the subject. Afterall, He said that His ways are higher than ours. I’m amazed that Father could ever use me to teach anyone anything, because my ideas and thoughts are constantly changing.
I used to think it was simple to know who was and wasn’t “saved.” Now I’m not so sure. I used to think it was easy to figure out what His will is, but it seems harder now than ever before. I used to think I knew how the end times were going to be, but now I have no idea. But I’m becoming more and more comfortable with not knowing. I don’t mind nearly as much now as I used to, and I expect to mind even less in the future. It really doesn’t matter, because one thing I really do know is that He has it under control.
I don’t want to be another guy out there who’s just like all the rest, banging away with their little hammers, trying to beat in their little points. I want to see things bigger than that. I want to see more than some bit of dogma that I’m beating out on my little forge. I want to see the truth, I want to know the truth, I want to understand the truth, I want to have faith in the truth.
By "know the truth," I don’t mean some kind of “I read a book about it so I know it.” I want to get up close and personal with truth, look Him in the eye, and shake His hand. I want to really and honestly have a relationship so that I can say that I know truth as a friend. I want to not just say, “so-and-so told me, so I understand truth.” I want to get so close to truth, that I can climb inside His mind, and truly understand Him. I want to have faith in truth, not in the terms of “I have this thought that I believe that bla bla bla.” I want to actually have such faith that I walk it out. My faith should be the tangible evidence of truth. My actions should be the expression, the very essence, of my faith.
I want to be a truth-bearer, not another Porky Pig, “bde, bde, bde, here’s truth, folks!”
There’s gotta be more than that. Someone out there has to be for real, not just out to prove a point. I’m sick of proving points. I’ve proven so many points in my lifetime it makes me want to wretch all over my keyboard. There has to be more to life. Life should be about living, not about proving, hypothetically, how we should live, but about actually getting out there and doing it, for crying out loud! For Heaven’s sakes, why am I even still sitting here at my computor? Why am I not out there doing what I talk about, putting my money where my mouth is? If I believe, why don’t I prove it? If I believe, why am I not raking my neighbor’s front yard? Why am I not crying with a friend in need? Why am I not on a parkbench teaching a bum how to read?
Talking is starting to make me ill. Let’s walk. I want to walk, and, to be blunt, the whole world can talk until they’re blue in the face, but it’s never going to make a lick of difference until we do something. Talk all you want, and see if anybody cares.
Dare to be different. Be anticonformity!
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Hold on a minute, before I critique this I need to fasten my seat belt! Man, oh man, if I for one did not hear your heart, someone check my pulse! Open, honest, vulnerable; I love this stuff and I have to agree that there are just too many saying "this and that is wrong with thus and so" and even though you pointed out what was wrong; you pointed that finger at only you and that is grand! Now, as a writer, when I saw that this article was basically one big paragraph? I almost didn't want to read it. I used to raise sheep and people are like sheep (for many reasons, I should write an article about that), but, one thing I know is that sheep will not drink from a creek/river that is (or seems) to be moving too quickly. Readers can be the same way; if the water of your words troubles them, chances are they will not tarry at the Jordan of your soul and drink of the refreshing, cleansing water He has given you.
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