Jesus – I AM for You!

Listening is Life itself

Philippians 2:4 (NASB95)

4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

I thought I had learned to listen. But more times than I will admit to myself I think of what I am going to say to someone while they are still talking. Not as much as thirty years ago when I started on this listening journey but choosing to think about what I am going to say next still interferes many times with deep, empathetic listening and understanding. I have no trouble appreciating how important what I have to say is :>) But if I am going to treat others as I want to be treated why can’t I equally value what you have to say? Clearly I am still the center of my universe and have much to learn from Jesus about the value I truly give others in my crowded consciousness. Crowded by the Big Three: Me, Myself, and I. Crowding out you.

I can be watching the stupidest TV show and my son will start excitedly telling me something. I will struggle to look him in the eyes and give him my full attention. I will have the pull on my consciousness that something terribly important is happening on that stupid TV show the whole time my son is pouring out his heart to me, his only earthly dad. I value my son and what he has to share with me. The TV show is, was, and will be forever stupid. Yet I struggle in the moment my son is talking to me to see those values clearly.

In the movie “The Shift” the devil defines evil. And this is the only time the devil told the truth. He defined all evil as simple “selfishness.” Other people are an intrusion on My Plans and I just don’t have time for them. Not if I want to get what I want. That reminds me of Jesus saying, If you seek to save your life you will lose it, and if you lose your life for Me you will save it. If I get what I want I will realize it is worthless and it will crumble like ashes in my hands. But if I realize the interruptions of others are God’s divine appointments and it is where True Life happens I can listen to and truly hear others and share the love of Jesus with them and together we three (you, me, and Jesus) can reap joy.

What’s in a name?

In this case, everything.

Tucker Carlson made an important point yesterday. It has been made by others but this time, with his context, it hit home to me.

Republicans are not fighting Democrats. The Right is not fighting the Left. The Force of Evil is fighting all of us to destroy all of us for the purposeless pleasure of destruction.

We are fighting Evil. Tucker said to fight it we can’t change them, we must change us. He recommended dealing only in Truth – in our public life and private life. We will gain inner strength that Evil cannot stand against.

The names Tucker talked around were Jesus vs. satan. This battle starts with each of us surrendering ourselves to the Truth of Jesus. And experiencing His unconditional love for us His children. He will protect us. “Not a hair of your head shall perish.” Even if we lose our lives following Him.

Speaking Jesus’ truth, in ever increasing numbers, will shine Jesus’ light on this present satanic Evil. It will get worse before it gets better as satan gets more and more desperate as more and more follow Jesus. But the victory is in Jesus’ trusted hands.

You can make the difference now

The framers of the U.S. Constitution feared “We the People” might someday be overtaken by “We the U.S. Government.” If you don’t think Government tyranny exists right now, you have been watching censored media. Whether you love Trump or hate him, he is experiencing election interference by Biden and the U.S. Government. Pro-lifers (who volunteered to turn themselves in and were denied) were traumatized by being arrested with many guns being pointed at them days later. Parents are assigned “Domestic Terrorists” labels for rightly calling out school board officials. Catholics are being targeted simply for being followers of Jesus.

If you are actively working to right these wrongs, I applaud you and please write me. If you are not, there is a book that you might want to read:

Letter to the American Church, by Eric Metaxas, Salem Books, ISBN: 978-1-68451-389-5.

With the rise of Hitler, Germany in the 1930’s and 1940’s headed down a path of disaster. The German church could have stopped it, but they believed lies about themselves – the church – and what the church should and should not do to intervene. The United States is paralleling Germany’s disaster, and the American Church can stop it, if they don’t believe the same lies that the German church did. Eric Metaxas writes a concise diagnosis and prescription for the American churches’ dysfunction in Letter to the American Church.

I am going to lovingly, peacefully, and legally take political action.

How about you?

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