Our spiritually-perceptive Australian brother Tim and I had been discussing the deceptive "boats" Christians get on-board with: the political, doctrinal, phllosophical, national, ideological (etc.) canned worldviews or mindsets every human being is expected to join in, and subscribe to.
Deceptive because they lure us on-board with some partial truth they say "explains all." And as Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan cogently observed in her History's People (about the "guiding ideas" embraced by Hitler and Stalin), what we accept as "explaining all" thereafter "justifies all" that we enact in its behalf.
"Boats" because they convey us, once aboard, where the captain of deceit wills, whether we wish to go there or not. Many aboard the "Christian conservative" boat loudly bemoaned last year that it was sailing to Port Trump: but that's where it went...and they with it.
The same day Tim and I were e-mailing back and forth, my beloved brother Kasumba Nathanael in Uganda posted the following meditation on facebook:
"Jesus is outside the camp. He is a man with no labels. And the moment you
link up with one group or another, and take unto yourself the labels and causes
and agendas and issues of this or that group, then it is you cease following
Jesus and begin following men. That will lead to pride, division, strife, and
trouble. Men love to build empires and fight enemies. But Jesus has called us
to something better and higher. He has called us unto Himself.
"We are in this world, but not of this world. Here we have no continuing city; for we seek a city whose builder and maker is God. Therefore, we are pilgrims passing through the many camps we come in contact with; exchanging greetings in the marketplace, dining in the restaurants, sunning on the beach, or playing in the fields — but only for a while. For this is not our home; this is not our camp.'Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.' (Hebrews 13:13)"
I was amazed again...though I shouldn't be...at this manifestation of God's love, and power. That, even in my miniscule and fallible experience of Him, God is speaking His unified and unifying Truth into the hearts of all who will hear Hm, across all His earth.
Praise Him !!
