Isaiah 61:4-7
H,
There is always that feeling
that puts us up as something less than what we are. We think we are propping
ourselves up but we are putting ourselves below the water and the truth. When we
ascribe to ourselves the role of the hero we are living in a certain conceit. And
that is never a good thing.
It is not that we are below
the great longings of our own heart. It is that those longings really go up and
not down. It is that they lead us to the sublime and not the merely bright. There
is such a thing as a false light. There are false starts, false hopes, false
loves and a false sense of self. There are false prophets and false
interpretations of truth and the false calling of a man to be next to deity and
set apart from the rest of the crowd he purports to serve. There is no such
thing as a divide between the shepherd and the sheep. It is false to say that
if you lead you must be esoteric and aloof. These are paradigms that God
shifted eternally out of place with His Christ-form. He was embedded in
humanity and never aloof from man and woman and child and all of creation. These
paper thin gods have nothing to offer. These false leaders are not of the
light. And they can never be.
We must be careful though. These
things are insidious. They are presumptuous sins. We may begin to see in
ourselves something more than the hallmarks of being saved. We may begin to see
ourselves as the man or woman apart. We may think we need to be above and
beyond the ordinary contact with what is human and imperfect. This is a grave
mistake. We must all be in the mud together. There is no telling who will be
pulled out of the mire first, any particular mud pool and any particular pool
of quicksand. There is no telling how that hand will connect with another hand
to all are saved. We serve God by being equal to each other and then submitted
in love to both. Anything else is the rumblings of a personality cult that is
good for no one.
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