9/28/2009

Moderate behaviours enacted

As I read the 'to do' section of the chapter on moderation in Getz's book The Measure of a Man I suddenly feel compelled to post on that section of this chapter (which has been present in each chapter but heretofore un-commented on by me). This chapter I realize, largely through his, Getz's, insight, touches on all that we are and all that we think and all that we hope and all the we do. In other words how we enact the submission to God in our lives plays itself out not only in our moderation of behaviour(to which all the other chapters speak), but also in our moderation of judging of others. God as a God of mercy has given us freedom, Christ has freed us from the judgement of condemnation, now we are to do the same for our fellow sojourners in the world. This is a moderation rather than a liberalization. There are still fundamentals that cannot be ignored. But we who are 'raised in the faith' must understand that our understanding and the particular channels by which we recieved that understanding are not the sole bearers of understanding. To become as someone else, in order to seed them with the Doctrine of atoning love, forgiveness and enthusiasm (study that word before complaining, please!)for action we must remember the genesis of that seed and through relationship built on firm foundation begin to understand that fertile soil into which we are planting.
So mostly we must pull the weeds of our own soil, as we might be, by geography of body or mind, unaware of the tender shoots of Spiritual produce in another's garden which would be lost or destroyed by our yanking at the roots of closely proximated or noramlly(to our above referred to limited understanding) apparent weeds, which otherwise (without our having removed them) would have served to increase the Kingdom Build in a facilitative mannner beyond our wildest imagination.

So the log in our own eye before the mote in another's, for it might not even be a mote but the moisture of Living Sparkle we should rather be nurturing.

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