The sales pitch is based on people talking about the difference that has been made in their lives thanks to the ruler.
You see the advert – the swooping shots of beautiful landscapes and scenery, the orchestral music sweeping your emotions as the voiceover from Regular Person talks with emotion about just how great their life is because of the ruler. Smiling faces fill the screen. Laughing couples and families populate the camera all is well with their world. Look at them, wouldn’t you like to be like them? Well to be like them, just follow the ruler.
That’s the presentation that’s given in the sales pitch.
When you explore a bit further, the reality is this existence is the reality for the few not the many. And the few are usually making the most of their exploits over the many. But if you’re able to scratch and claw your way through the system and pay the price and beat the odds, you might be able to taste what the few have … even at the cost of the many. And that only takes place if you follow the ruler.
That’s one presentation.
Then there’s a conversation with a person who isn’t dressed that much differently to you in wardrobe pricing but certainly has a different aura about them. An aura of strength in humility. This comes from their story.
Their story also involves following the rule of a leader. The difference is that theirs is one where the few does not sit on top by capitalising on the many. It is not a scheme to reach the top of a pile quicker than anyone.
On the contrary, this leader took the form of a servant. This leader came and lived among people who were in despair, in low circumstances in life, in sickness and oppression. This leader came among them, reached them at their point of need, spoke about a Kingdom designed to lift them out of their depression into the true delight that comes from knowing the source of peace. He didn’t just talk about it, He expressed it and the lives of people were transformed.
Lives like this person with this aura of strength and humility – something that can be attributed to his sense of gratitude to this leader who lifted him out of the pit of debt and despair.
There is no glitzy, well produced video presentation with the moving music and the great visuals. There is no ad campaign painting the world as your oyster in seemingly quick and easy steps.
There is a life transformed.
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For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
Life With CD 