Men are stronger than women and women are stronger than children. In a world of good people, this means men protect women and women protect children. In this world of sin it means men are contemptuous of women and women are contemptuous of children. These distinctions are because good people esteem love above all else whereas evil people esteem power above all else. This is why good people reject hate and evil people despise weakness.
The Confederate States of America were wrong because the Confederacy lost the war. The German Empire was wrong because it lost the Great War. Fascism is bad and Communism was good because Communism won the Great Patriotic War. Communism is wrong because it lost the Cold War.
Might does make right. The Golden Rule is indeed “he who has the gold, makes the rules.” The world is what it was and shall always be.
Unlike men, women and children, the angels, the “gods” of this world are immortal. God can kill these immortals, however, and at a whim. He shall kill a third of them. By the ways of this world, God is righteous.
God is not justified by the world, mind you. It acknowledges him, though against him, because he is its only source. Its ways and the ways of heaven, right or wrong, good or evil, are by his design. He is the power worshipped by his enemies.
You may have noticed that those who whine about being mistreated favor those who mistreat them. You may have seen that those who loathe weakness favor the weak. It all makes sense if you realize these attitudes are vanity: PRIDE. The mistreated bask in self-righteous indignation. The weak feel strong among those weaker.
Making
the world right is unimportant. It is doomed, and was from the beginning… and
good riddance. Doing what is right, for the right reasons, is what matters. Make
the effort and you shall thrive whether the world thrives with you or not. Yes,
you shall bear the weight of the world, and it may crush you, but that is
whether you bother or not. Your fate shall not be bound to the fate of the
world, unless you are of the world.
Those who esteem power do so at the expense of others. Such is folly, because the one who has all of it does not prize such things. He would rather give than receive, and has given us so very much.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I have noticed that those who obsess over power and knowledge neglect the little things. Their focus is entirely on what they covet on the outside. They fail to make the most of what is on the inside, dismissing it is inadequate.
DeleteThis World breaks the back of those who only try to do good and keeps those who devote themselves to its systems enslaved. Indeed to follow The Way is to take up the weight of the world, "Take up your cross and follow me" ~ Jesus. The Spirit is all that matters, to thrive in spirit is to be apart from the world and follow The Way always. This world was doomed from the beginning but in the End it will be made new.
ReplyDeleteYes. Bearing the cross does break the back. The spirit is willing but the flesh weak, indeed. Those of the flesh are as mortal as the flesh. Those of the Spirit shall live forever, for the Spirit makes alive. Jesus should know: It quickened him.
DeleteMight makes right is a worldly perspective. Jesus is the true way as accepted by his father. Nothing he does has anything to do with worldly realities, but instead has everything to do with the way things should be without all the vanity and weird perceptual concepts we make up.
ReplyDeleteYes. The world, for all its wickedness, acknowledges the sincerity demonstrated by Jesus to be the way to go... yet the world does otherwise and bothers to make excuses.
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