Always bragging, arrogant, ambitiously lusting after all the world around, a know-it-all – as some politicians in the world of the heathens behave, blowing their own trumpet to tell all about how big and bulky they are, how a giant they are in matters of rot and decay – then this is one fact about such men: they are as big as nothing! An empty tank are they! Vain they are, and a brother or sister to every vanity!
For whatever is taken as great in the world of the heathen, is rot and decay before God, just an abomination in His sight!
Luke 16:15 KJV
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
“My friend, if you think you are so great that the world around you can’t operate without you, then you are nothing but an the most vital substance that we need all the time. You might miss water for a day or two and still survive, but you cannot miss air for ten minutes and survive! Yet it is invisible! Yes, God is invisible. His operations are hardly seen, yet without Him nothing else can exist!
“The Holy Spirit is invisible, we can’t see him, yet without him, Christianity becomes an empty container! Get it! Things which matter are never showy! They can’t even be seen, and that is what makes them noble! A noble thing is never common, it never mixes freely with the rest, it never goes everywhere littering, being noisy and vulgar. Why? It is keeping watch. The of light, you must be cut to size by God’s Word! There is no shortcut to it! Believe it.”
“Amen, my dear brother! I am here for that purpose.” Cried Kindness. “I must be circumcised, if I will pass through the strait gate. I am willing. I am ready too. Ready to be cut to size. Just now. Please do.”
“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who can never pass in the narrow way to heaven; the door won’t admit him in. Hear this:
“And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Mark 10:24-25
“Obvious! The fellow is too big to pass through the strait gate into life. That gate is no one else but Jesus. Any who fatten themselves in world matters can hardly refined sister cries for mercy, what about me! Oh God, have mercy on me! Where shall I hide from thy word, thy two-edged sword?” I cried and cried and cried…
“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
1Pe 4:17-18
“Yes, you have to be cut to size,” Meekness continued, “both physically and spiritually, you must, if heaven would admit you. The master spoke that , that is nothing but the very truth!” Cried Purity. “That is why I am here. I have presented myself to the physician, ready to be cut to size. Do the job! I repent from all that clay lumped on me by the king of terrors. I repent from all the vanities of this world. I am willing, to lose weight both ways: inside-out. Oh, sword of the king, here am I!”
“So obnoxious is the character of men in thick clay! First, they can hardly cooperate with others – too haughty, too arrogant to listen to anybody else. Secondly, they can hardly be coordinated to serve in unity with others – too proud, too boastful to listen to anybody else. Thirdly, they can hardly operate willingly to serve in harmony with others around, they are full of themselves – too selfish, heady, high-minded that they don’t regard others to be of any use. Fourthly, they can hardly be of any use to anybody else, in fact they are useless! Why? They only serve themselves, for they are mean to the letter! My brother Little Calmness, say it!”
“Nothing but the truth!”“Life at best does not demand for complicated and sophisticated theories that strain the mind to comprehend, and that elude hands from effecting. Life at best is lived simply. Or am I mistaken, my friend, Shalom?”
“On the dot! Drum it still. Beat her home! It makes me glad, so glad. Why? The scripture says: ‘And the common people heard him gladly.’ Mark 12:37b KJV
“I am that common, and hears him still, gladly. Please, carry me along; I am willing to travel the full length. Shortcuts? I don’t believe in them! Better go the long sure way that delivers me safely home, than the shortcut of some vain religious outfit which will miscarry me along the way. Speak it to me still! I am not yet there!”
“Look!” Cried Meekness. “A perfectly made machine is one which is simple and easy to operate. Look at a vehicle, a modern one in the land of the heathens, it is quite complicated within; it is so sophisticated a machine when viewed from within but look at how simple it is on the outside, and how easily operated it is too. That is why almost anyone can learn how to drive a car, whether he is literate or illiterate. Yes, the more perfect you get to be, the simpler you are, and the easily operated too!”
“My brother, you have nailed it on the head,” cried Little Peaceful, “I can’t swing. No adjustment, no room for flexibility. Facts can be stubborn; they can never bend, they couldn’t, even for the emperor of Rome! He had to obey them or perish. Submitted I am, under their sway. Carry her home!”
“Yes, simplicity is the key to perfection. If what you have achieved is a perfect piece of work, then it should be very simple to teach anyone how to operate it. On the other hand, whatever is hard to operate, means it is still crude, unfinished and unaccomplished. Get it? The same thing applies to Christianity! Yep, much more so.
“All natural things operate and are operated in simplicity and with ease. Look at how you operationalize your hands with ease while working; all is easy and flexible. Look at how you operationalize your feet and legs as you scale here and there; it is simple and easy. Look how your fingers are adapted to various functions; there is nothing complicated about it. Exactly!