Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Another
inspiration/indigestion while Kopper took me for a walk.
He seems to want
to walk with me forever.
I keep looking
forward to when it's over.
That's gotta mean
something.
Be that as it may be, the
parable of the runaway follows...
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I never really
liked him...until now.
It was a forced
relationship.
He was a rich
member of the church, inheriting all of his wealth from his entrepreneurial
daddy and feeling entitled to more than others in every way so reminiscent of
Jesus' verdict, and I was a boy wonder ably gifted for pulpiteering
wizardry without the necessary emotional or spiritual prerequisites.
We were the same
age.
Adulteries come
in all emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical forms and I felt
entitled to them more than others in every way because I was ably gifted for
pulpiteering wizardry without the necessary emotional or spiritual
prerequisites.
Proving Balaam's
wasn't the only one who God could use to tell the truth, he confronted me,
"You will never come close to what He has for you until you face your
demons."
Or as a street
preacher once explained, "You can't fix what you won't face."
When problems or
tight spots or annoyances or miscues or irregulars or irascibles or irreconcilables
or sins closed in, I ran away to the next church that always called because I
was ably gifted for pulpiteering wizardry without the necessary emotional or
spiritual prerequisites.
Not as familiar
with the Psalmist or garden story or anything Biblical as I pretended
to be, spending most of my "educational" time reading books
about the book, I thought I could run away from whomever or whatever
or wherever or whyever whenever that feeling of closing in began
to incarnate.
Strange
how the past is reincarnated unless the counsel of the rich contemporary
and street preacher is absorbed into the deepest recesses of mind and
spirit.
It's impossible
to outrun what's deeply embedded.
It must be faced
before what He has for you can
be experienced/expressed.
Repetition
or restoration is a choice no matter what hyper-predestinarians pretend.
Yes, we are
predestined in every way according
to the Bible.
Yes, we have
volition in every way according
to the Bible.
It's better to
spend time in what/whom is within your reach.
That happens over
time for many.
That happens on
Damascus Road for others.
That happens...in
different ways for different people who truly want it/Him to happen to them...or not.
It's a choice.
Decision.
There's not a
word that's strong enough to...
I never really
liked him...until now.
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He seems to want
to walk with me forever.
When I stopped
wanting it to be over, the relationship began to...
It doesn't start
until you stop running away.
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Blessings and Love!