Suffering (1/22/06)

Suffering is probably the one distinguishing quality that will lead to Dorean’s ultimate success. Not those who blame their suffering on others but those who suffer for the blame of others. To change an evil power there are only a couple of choices. One is to amass greater power and in war defeat them. With the current power controlling weapons, money and education this is highly unlikely. Two is to win the war on moral or reasonable grounds. With the current power controlling all media this is very unlikely. The most powerful would be for the church to demand a change because men focused on eternity are not easily brainwashed and willing to die. Very difficult for a controlling power since the church is currently in league with the controlling power in education, faith focused on this life, and apathy this is very unlikely. Therefore a revolution of the cross must occur. The current controlling party is no more evil than that of Rome. Rome as a power is gone but men of the cross remain. The government’s supercilious praetronic misanthropic mortgage industry benefits too much from its evils to even pause for a moral question of self reflection. Anyone even alluding to it will get their blazing wrath. Here is where suffering becomes a weapon or an excuse. People who view life as the here and now as the completeness of their vision will look for an exit to preserve the status quo. Those who understand it as weapon against evil expect suffering and rejoice in it. They view their haters as objects of affection whose evil will get its reflection when it attacks its opposite. It is harder to spank a crying child saying “I love you” than a defiant one who offers you rebellion. The Power is a machine designed to crush rebellion but love short circuits its motherboard. I dislike suffering as all of you, but my willingness to embrace it has given the one power greater than what we face right, title, and interest in this issue. Since the church fails Him here it falls upon men of faith to present His decree. His ecclesiastical branch of authority confronting His civil branch. Elijah appears in Scripture in 1 Kg. 17 for the first time under similar circumstance. Christ himself gave evil its greatest opportunity or condemnation when He took it on in love. Today we have a rebel civil agent who does not respect the principle, Christ, who rules and reigns in justice and righteousness. Like the parable of the wicked Vinedresser God is sending His Son for surely they will respect Him. The offer is current and remains. What will they do? Either way we win! Mt. 21:33