From the Veteran’s file Regarding platitudes and simplifications We all need to go through a thorough cleansing before the Word of God, in order that our love for and adherence to banalities and clichés comes to an end. The use of truisms and simplifications has taken such proportions that the promises of the Lord have been twisted and distorted beyond recognition and functionality. In our clinging to banalities and platitudes, we are not far from loosing of our salvation – because the Lord does not allow His Word to become profaned by the urge for recognition and self-aggrandizement, which is profoundly supported by the reality- and mind-bending techniques of modern psychology. By the support for the fulfilling of carnal desires and lofty views of recognition and prosperity, which are so easily picked up these days, we are deceived into believing that the positivism captured and mobilized in modern views of the ability stored in man’s nature is the very Gospel of God. The Gospel proclaims the cross of Christ as being the end of the carnal man and his ambitions, for the sake of the installing of a new heart and the beginning of a new life in Christ to be lived before God. The existence of the truisms and platitudes, which we are so fond of, are motivated by self-indulgence, of a “What’s in it for me”. The use of the clichés and banalities, which all comes as instructions from the counseling chambers of psychology – and not from any prayer chamber – leads astray and they are all sings of the apostasy which builds up unto the last revolting against the Most High God and His rule in Zion. Sons are reared by godly instruction and, sometimes, by severe chastening. Our Sunday banalities are all constructed for the sake of a confirming of what we consider to be spirituality at its best. But our standards are not in line with God’s, as long as we go on defining ourselves according to the standards of the world, its mediocrity and its arbitrary rulings. The force of worldly rule produces nothing but banality and platitudes. And, we gladly use them to hide from the chastening of the Lord. None of this will do according to the cross of Christ – neither before its severe judgings unto death, nor in the light of its offering a sharing in the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. We cannot hide our immaturity behind banalities, produced by empty and unwilling hearts. We cannot hid our unwillingness for spiritual maturity by the use of products of twisted minds, who are not able to identify the difference between the holy and the profane. Our concept and approach to reality, to spiritual reality, is condensed in a reading which leads to repentance and a praying unto proper obedience, which – under the hand of the Lord – will lead towards spiritual maturity. Lars Widerberg -- -- --
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:25:07 +0000
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