The Still Raging Shrug: Erratum
Last night I was contemplating the blog post I had from yesterday as I sometimes do, and I realized I'd made a logical misstep through my writing that I had not intended. I'm committed to only making minor clarifications in any edit of a previous blog post, and I thought it would be best just to add a note about the nature of that misstep. It will serve the purpose of making the post more meaningful, ironically in the sense that it was all about how much people plainly revile what is truly meaningful. But hey, in Christ -- it's all good.
I'd first written that for anyone to truly understand what really is going on when the large financial institutions announce they're closing their proprietary trading desks -- which, by the way, are those parts of the company that trade on their own profits for their own personal gain -- they'd have to be in one of the three groups. The intimation is that if you aren't in one of the groups, then you just wouldn't get it no matter how much you are being hosed.
But later I mentioned that everyone is in one of those groups. It is true that everyone is in one of those "ministries," but then that would also mean that they all do get it, that they all do comprehend what the large institutions are actually doing, and it is very clear that they don't.
How to resolve this logical misstep?
It is actually not hard. The answer is that within each ministry are different levels in which people have various considerations, desires, thoughts, passions, and yes, understandings.
The ones who understand in the ministry of sin do so because they are most successful in their human sacrifice. Others in different levels within that ministry stay there because they want to be as successful, but don't have a clue as to how they're being exploited themselves. Because of their reprobate covetousness, they simply can't squirm their way out. Of course, no one could without Christ. The interesting thing is that the best value extractors are just as exploited themselves, believing that their temporal riches will save them.
The ones who understand in the ministry of condemnation do so because they've listened so intently and followed so dutifully the instructions of their Superior Officer, disseminated throughout the Society for centuries by its sworn operatives mostly through the institutions of higher education and the mass media. These avenues are optimum for "spinning" everything, molding it all into a spectacle of humanist expectation and conduct, so understanding at the lower levels by those schlurping it up is really "disunderstanding."
The ones who understand in the ministry of reconciliation do so because they know they are loved by a Christ who died for them, and they in turn can "die" for others. They may ultimately give the full measure of devotion, but "dying" mostly just means sacrificing themselves daily to meet the needs of, to sow richly for, and to love charitably those God has sent them to fellowship with or minister to. Out of that comes an overflowing fountain of spiritual and, yes, material blessings for which the reconciler is always thanking God.
Even though everyone is in one of those camps, are there those in each camp who just can't, don't, won't understand? Absolutely.
Want understanding of that which is phenomenally meaningful? Extraordinarily liberating? Abundantly breathtaking? Splendidly impassioned? Exceedingly joyous?
It can only come through full devotion to the One Who Has All That.
I'd first written that for anyone to truly understand what really is going on when the large financial institutions announce they're closing their proprietary trading desks -- which, by the way, are those parts of the company that trade on their own profits for their own personal gain -- they'd have to be in one of the three groups. The intimation is that if you aren't in one of the groups, then you just wouldn't get it no matter how much you are being hosed.
But later I mentioned that everyone is in one of those groups. It is true that everyone is in one of those "ministries," but then that would also mean that they all do get it, that they all do comprehend what the large institutions are actually doing, and it is very clear that they don't.
How to resolve this logical misstep?
It is actually not hard. The answer is that within each ministry are different levels in which people have various considerations, desires, thoughts, passions, and yes, understandings.
The ones who understand in the ministry of sin do so because they are most successful in their human sacrifice. Others in different levels within that ministry stay there because they want to be as successful, but don't have a clue as to how they're being exploited themselves. Because of their reprobate covetousness, they simply can't squirm their way out. Of course, no one could without Christ. The interesting thing is that the best value extractors are just as exploited themselves, believing that their temporal riches will save them.
The ones who understand in the ministry of condemnation do so because they've listened so intently and followed so dutifully the instructions of their Superior Officer, disseminated throughout the Society for centuries by its sworn operatives mostly through the institutions of higher education and the mass media. These avenues are optimum for "spinning" everything, molding it all into a spectacle of humanist expectation and conduct, so understanding at the lower levels by those schlurping it up is really "disunderstanding."
The ones who understand in the ministry of reconciliation do so because they know they are loved by a Christ who died for them, and they in turn can "die" for others. They may ultimately give the full measure of devotion, but "dying" mostly just means sacrificing themselves daily to meet the needs of, to sow richly for, and to love charitably those God has sent them to fellowship with or minister to. Out of that comes an overflowing fountain of spiritual and, yes, material blessings for which the reconciler is always thanking God.
Even though everyone is in one of those camps, are there those in each camp who just can't, don't, won't understand? Absolutely.
Want understanding of that which is phenomenally meaningful? Extraordinarily liberating? Abundantly breathtaking? Splendidly impassioned? Exceedingly joyous?
It can only come through full devotion to the One Who Has All That.
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