As A Little Child

Posted on March 18, 2011 by LovingLikeGod.com

This morning, as I thought about the aversion to meaningful/lasting relationships, the following two verses of Scripture came into alignment for me:

“Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” Mark 10:15 KJV

“Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.” Deuteronomy 1:39 KJV

This verse from Deuteronomy pretty well nails the problem – “… knowledge between good and evil.”

Let’s call it “childhood wounding.” It seems that it is happening at a younger and young age as we see the end of the age approaching. There is all kinds of child abuse, all of it in the context of relationship. We hardly need to go into the details to make our point here. For the present it is enough to say that “wounded” and “offended” people are very reluctant to re-engage intimate relationships, whether with those who have hurt them in the past or those who are likely to hurt them in the future.

The Kingdom of God is all about relationship(s). If we cant get past our wounding, our offendedness, our “…knowledge of good and evil,” we are just not going to enter in. This is the conversation I would like to have here for the next few weeks – months.

We need to get real about the offenses and the wounding, and discover how to move beyond all that. Otherwise the best we are able to do, where “entering in” is concerned, is some kind of Christianized religious white wash.

Love!

For more reading on this subject, see The First Commandment With Promise

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Observations On The News

Posted on March 10, 2011 by LovingLikeGod.com

Over the past week I have been preoccupied with colon cancer surgery and recovery. This has had me somewhat handicapped where writing is concerned. It has, however, positioned me once again to get a belly full of news media drivel. For now I just want to make two observations having to do with political economy.

First: Letting lawyers pass laws is like letting dentists pass cavities. It is difficult to imagine a bigger or more liberty damaging conflict of interest!

Second: Historically, markets determine what serves as money. Historically gold and silver have had the starring roles. Once the medium of exchange or money is identified by the market, governments know what to control. Gold is the monetary choice of liberty, it has no agenda except the integrity of it’s own value. Money with integrity is the arch-enemy of governmental power.
Governments contaminate the integrity of substance by adding images to the money. Money with images on it is AGENDA money. The agenda of governments is the centralization of control, which is to say an end of human liberty.

There was a moment in history when things looked promising for a little while. You can read about it in the US Declaration of Independence. You won’t find much about that in the news. This too seems to be no accident.

There was a brief moment in history when things were looking hopeful for human liberty. You cam read about that moment in the U S Declaration of Independence. You won’t find much about that in today’s news.

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Behold

Posted on March 3, 2011 by LovingLikeGod.com

The day He died, Jesus had the best view on the hill.

Among other things He saw that day, He saw His mother standing beside John, “the disciple He loved.”  He gave them to each other that day – John to her as a son, and her to John as a mother.

But the beholding I would like to share about here is our own beholding; what we need to see in connection with the day He died.

Pilate presented Jesus to the crowd and said, “Behold the man.” Jesus was wearing a crown that day.

Many years before that day another king wrote: “Behold …” – Well, perhaps you might want to read it for yourself in Song of Songs 3:11.

While you are there, please note the context beginning with verse 7.

And here are a couple of clues that might help with your own beholding: Jesus said that these Scriptures were all about Him, and, another way of understanding Who this passage is about is to remember that king Solomon was also the Son of David.

Jesus began to put the solitary in families even before He died.

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