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Somebody smart once said, “everybody wants to change the world, nobody ever wants to change themselves.” There is wisdom there.
I really dislike that term,”the personal is political.” Let’s completely flip that around and declare, “it’s not political, it’s just personal.”
Don’t try to fix a personal issue with a political solution.
Something I always find a bit humorous, on the internet someone always comes along to accuse me of being repressed, or a doormat, or silent in church. Didn’t the Apostle Paul say you had to be silent in church? It’s amusing because my first response is, Say Wut?
Me?
Is there something about the thousands of words I pour out that reminds you of “silence?” Do I seem like a doormat? Wut?
I am totally silent in church…when someone else is speaking, except when I’m not, but that is really the fault of the woman who sits behind me and whispers jokes in my ear. Totally. I went to this church once and a guy actually threw candy at me, twice. What could I do? I was giggling so I simply yelled “amen” so the pastor wouldn’t think I was actually laughing at him. It can be awkward speaking in front of people and the last thing you want is to look out and see everyone laughing at you when you haven’t even told a joke.
There is also something to be said for the quiet, for reverence and peace, for the beauty that comes in moments of silence.
It’s sad to me when someone comes along and yells at me about silence in church, and second class citizenship, and how awful faith is, because I can hear the pain there, I sense the damage that has been done, I can see the deceptions. I know those beautiful words of scripture where once used to wound and not to heal, and such things just break my heart. I am so sorry. If I could find the people who misled you I would fling them all off the planet for you. Seriously.
Here’s the deal, however. Scripture is not the problem. Faith is not the problem. People like me are not the problem. It’s personal, not political. Because it’s personal, the solution is also personal. You have to accept that you were deceived, likely spiritually abused, and that those things have now cost you your relationship with Jesus Christ, fellowship with other Christians, restoration, healing, mercy, grace…..the joy of the Lord.
You cannot fix what’s broken, what was stolen, by kicking enough Christians, by demanding scripture be changed, by ridding the world of all evidence of what once hurt you, because it isn’t what’s on the outside that is broken. It’s your inside that craves restoration and healing.
He heals, He restores, and He does it so beautifully, but you have to reach out for Him.
Halima Nawaz said:
God does not change the condition of man until he changes the condition of himself 🙂 If we are truly seeking answers and soul edification, we must reflect within ourselves rather than blame God or others for the hurt we choose to hold onto.
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insanitybytes22 said:
Amen. That’s it in a nut shell.
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Halima Nawaz said:
It grieves me how people are so quick to let go of the rope to God when a trial befalls them when in actual fact the trial is supposed to bring us closer to Him. It’s refreshing to find others with faith in a world growing in faithlessness and heedlessness
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insanitybytes22 said:
I hear you. It grieves me, too.
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newenglandsun said:
i get what you mean and all but these liberal christian refugee organisations rely on big $$$ from the government. this is why it is absolutely VITAL for us to be on board with accepting refugees–so they can give potential terrorists in our communities, they can fiddle their fingers and pretend they’ve done a christ-like thing while becoming richer (not a single one of these organisations actually houses the refugees, they just make them someone else’s problem) and then claim to be everyone’s moral superior because jesus did likewise.
but it is important still for us to accept the refugees any way–our moral superiors need more $$$ and they already have $$$!
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Rebecca LuElla Miller said:
IB, your post reminds me of Eve and the deception she bought into. When God confronts her, his most severe punishment is for the deceiver, though the consequences for Eve and for Adam are pretty brutal, too. In fact, Adam did try to lay the problem at God’s feet: “The woman You gave me . . . ” But the fault is never God. It’s ours for not believing Him, whether it’s “If you eat, you’ll die,” or if it’s, “If you believe, you’ll live.”
But we tend to make it too complicated, and we get sidetracked by unimportant issues, or by things we want to do that we think God will keep us from, or by stuff we’re afraid of or worried about, or by more lies from the enemy of our souls. God strips it all down: love Me, believe in Me, follow Me.
Love the picture accompanying your post!
Becky
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Arrow said:
I’ve had experiences on both sides of this, but now I’m perfect, okay, stop laughing! So I thought I was right, others wrong, I might have been , too, but didn’t know how to communicate the grain of truth I had through my crooked tongue and deceitful heart. I struggled for years, got involved in the “discernment ” circles, traveled long distances to go to seminars, met Bill Handles, Dave Hunt, Jacob Prasch, Jewel Van de Merve, and the like, all people with a real concern for the Church, then heard of this concept called “Dispatch” and a guy named Dean Gotcher, and his study of change agents. The study of what’s wrong got me irritated, of how it is transmitted, frustrated. So what to do Lord? Oh, yes plenty of seeking God along the way, and I was led the long way round the hill! (Some are denser than others) somewhere in the mix I read “The subtle power of spiritual abuse” by and VonVondran (sp?) A fairly simple , practical manual on when to hold em when to walk and when to run.
So what did I learn? It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, it is the glory of man to search it out, that’s one, that God has to test everything, shake every tree, bring low every mountain, and I have to let the test come, sometimes I am someone else’s test too! Hey, –it happens! Sometimes it stinks, sometimes it gets picked up in a neat bag, sometimes it turns to the best fertilizer,.
So what did I do when I was in a big church that was going wrong, well, that’s when God clearly showed me that I had to just leave, He had to test, shake, bring low, as He wanted, in His time, not mine.
Did I learn anything, oh yes! Oh yeah, my poop stinks just like yours, and if you find some that doesn’t stink something is wrong – run, fast, away! Humility comes with admitting that none are perfect but one, and he died for us, our righteousness is as filthy rags, now, go preach your heart out with that in mind! And try not to get so used to the smell in the cesspool that fresh air makes you gag.
Love your blog, thanks IB.
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Arrow said:
Okay, correction, spell check changed DIAPRAX TO DISPATCH
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insanitybytes22 said:
Thanks for your kind words, Arrow. I love your comment.
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Mama Equis said:
Reblogged this on Harvesting Hope and commented:
So so true
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