ugmug
Member
- May 17, 2010
- 337
- 55
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherent the world.â€
Matthew 5:5
Here you have a seemingly innocuous and unappealing statement (by worldly standards) by Jesus Christ in his sermon on the mount that for years I considered the antithesis of what is expected in modern life. Our modern culture is saturated with the exact opposite of meekness where toughness and strength is a highly prized personal attribute. Our ideal of success in society is that of domination and conquest that relegates meekness as a trait of failure.
But look around and you see the exact opposite. Societies built on projecting toughness such as communism or dictatorships or those governments built upon a strict religious regime all exhibit the exact opposite of success. Jesus Christ made meekness a highly prized trait with the guarantee of a blessing. If God, as Jesus Christ, states that meekness will be blessed then God will promote and champion that trait in his faithful. Christianity's strength isn't that it is a conquering religion but a religion that nurtures meekness, a meekness that God will bless. Once again I implore you to look around. Go to any ghetto and what feeling do you experience, not one of meekness, but one of violence and the lack of God's blessing.
The opposite of blessing is deprivation, where success is inhibited by laziness. As our modern society fosters an insatiable appetite for domination and conquest God will straddle it with laziness and failure. History is riddled with empires and nations that chose to pursue domination and conquest that suffocated meekness which ultimately doomed that society as God withdrew his blessing. As our media portrays heroes as those who gain success through domination and conquest God will withdraw his blessings from those who follow that flawed example.
A good example of this is with the violent video games. People, even Christians, who find these violent video games irresistible and highly addictive begin to exhibit a life of failure brought on by laziness when God withdraws his blessings. Woman often pursue men who exhibit a strong domineering personality devoid of the 'repulsive' trait of meekness only to learn that God will bless the exact opposite, a meek and highly talented individual.
In our current political and economic malaise the cure isn't substituting one domineering political party for another but turning our lives over to a faith in Jesus Christ and the pursuit of a life and attitude of meekness. Only through a life of meekness will God's blessings pour forth upon his faithful.
God Bless
also:
God blessed America from its inception, not just because we included God, but because the Founding Fathers infused our constitution with meekness (negative rights) thereby preventing our government from dominating our lives. Nowadays we see people demanding that our government shed it meek role in our lives and instead dominate and conquer all of our problems and difficulties. As we use politics and politicians to alter our government's role to cater to our lust for conquest and domination, thereby forsaking meekness, God will (and has) withdrawn his blessings.
In fact the US constitution is based on the 10 commandments. For the 10 commandments are negative rights in that they spell out what we're not to do as opposed to positive rights that require an action to be performed for someone else's benefit. Our constitution is a set of laws that require our government to refrain from seizing specific and inordinate amounts of rights and freedoms from its citizens. In this regard our constitution mirrors the 10 commandments for it reflects a call to refrain from specific actions that ultimately will do harm to others. It is because our government structure along with our constitution, modeled after the 10 commandments, willingly gives credence to God that the godless are determined to undermine its power and authority.
Matthew 5:5
Here you have a seemingly innocuous and unappealing statement (by worldly standards) by Jesus Christ in his sermon on the mount that for years I considered the antithesis of what is expected in modern life. Our modern culture is saturated with the exact opposite of meekness where toughness and strength is a highly prized personal attribute. Our ideal of success in society is that of domination and conquest that relegates meekness as a trait of failure.
But look around and you see the exact opposite. Societies built on projecting toughness such as communism or dictatorships or those governments built upon a strict religious regime all exhibit the exact opposite of success. Jesus Christ made meekness a highly prized trait with the guarantee of a blessing. If God, as Jesus Christ, states that meekness will be blessed then God will promote and champion that trait in his faithful. Christianity's strength isn't that it is a conquering religion but a religion that nurtures meekness, a meekness that God will bless. Once again I implore you to look around. Go to any ghetto and what feeling do you experience, not one of meekness, but one of violence and the lack of God's blessing.
The opposite of blessing is deprivation, where success is inhibited by laziness. As our modern society fosters an insatiable appetite for domination and conquest God will straddle it with laziness and failure. History is riddled with empires and nations that chose to pursue domination and conquest that suffocated meekness which ultimately doomed that society as God withdrew his blessing. As our media portrays heroes as those who gain success through domination and conquest God will withdraw his blessings from those who follow that flawed example.
A good example of this is with the violent video games. People, even Christians, who find these violent video games irresistible and highly addictive begin to exhibit a life of failure brought on by laziness when God withdraws his blessings. Woman often pursue men who exhibit a strong domineering personality devoid of the 'repulsive' trait of meekness only to learn that God will bless the exact opposite, a meek and highly talented individual.
In our current political and economic malaise the cure isn't substituting one domineering political party for another but turning our lives over to a faith in Jesus Christ and the pursuit of a life and attitude of meekness. Only through a life of meekness will God's blessings pour forth upon his faithful.
God Bless
also:
God blessed America from its inception, not just because we included God, but because the Founding Fathers infused our constitution with meekness (negative rights) thereby preventing our government from dominating our lives. Nowadays we see people demanding that our government shed it meek role in our lives and instead dominate and conquer all of our problems and difficulties. As we use politics and politicians to alter our government's role to cater to our lust for conquest and domination, thereby forsaking meekness, God will (and has) withdrawn his blessings.
In fact the US constitution is based on the 10 commandments. For the 10 commandments are negative rights in that they spell out what we're not to do as opposed to positive rights that require an action to be performed for someone else's benefit. Our constitution is a set of laws that require our government to refrain from seizing specific and inordinate amounts of rights and freedoms from its citizens. In this regard our constitution mirrors the 10 commandments for it reflects a call to refrain from specific actions that ultimately will do harm to others. It is because our government structure along with our constitution, modeled after the 10 commandments, willingly gives credence to God that the godless are determined to undermine its power and authority.