It is often my actions that betray me.
The talk is good, but what is it in the actions that indicates there’s agreement between words and deed?
That’s on an individual level, you can see how it works on a community level. Unity of purpose and expression of what we want is sometimes the same battle between what we are saying and what we are doing. Sometimes, there is a slow adjustment of what we’re saying to fit what we’re doing as if to justify it as being what we wanted in the first place. Even though that quite blatantly does not fit the sort of desires that should be marked out by the gathering.
It’s not a hopeless case. There are examples around if we’re eager to look and learn from them. Both on the individual and community level finding that degree of agreement between what we say we want and what we do.
There is the crucial period of over three years where a man gathered others around Him to show them the pinnacle of this life of integrity. This was not just individual integrity, He was in agreement to do whatever His Father told Him to do. From this divine example revealed in human flesh, we are encouraged to follow the model and learn integrity both for the self and the community.
That will strengthen our signs to others as they see us show as well as tell.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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