“[Don’t]…think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”  (Romans 12)

“And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others?”  (Matthew 5)

“Blessed art [T]hou, O LORD…”  (Psalm 119: 12a.)

 

Reader, Please follow my train of thought, if you will. In this article we would write about seriousness and levity.  In the second (2nd) passage, we have our Lord speaking to how one might engage another, He teaches us here that persons are individuals and each person is to be treated or engaged with a correct and proper manner that is peculiar to that person. Does this make sense? Can you see the point i’m trying to exposit from Christ’s Words? My point and the focus of this article is concerned with treating persons the same or treating persons differently.  This also will lead us (DV) to our engagement and exchanges with the Master.

If everyone is treated the same by a person, no one in that person’s life will be a standout…Am I making sense?………..?

Let’s do it- this way, When we engage God in prayer and in practicing His Presence, IE. Praying without ceasing, being instant in prayer, and praying always everywhere; entering into a spiritually palpable and spiritually tangible place where God is and remaining there, prostrate at His Feet.  All of this can be done while one is driving a car, jogging, labouring, grappling, looking at the t.v. and in the midst of many persons.  Christ was alone praying, Scripture tells us, and then we read the words, “[H]is disciples being with [H]im.” Our Lord was alone praying and His disciples were with Him.  Do you see how this works? He was alone in prayer though He be in the midst of His disciples. This is where the Christ-ian enters into a real and very intimate bonding or mystical uniting with God.  Think about Moses leaving the Presence of God after spending time with Him; then we see Joshua also is present (probably unknown to Moses but certainly known to God) and Joshua remains after Moses departs.

Reader, There is a way to enter God’s Presence and remain there, never losing or leaving His known, and dare I say, His felt Presence.

Reader, we should address God differently than we do other persons. An example: Some use the thee and the thou in prayer. This is different than how they engage others.

Another thought, this writer enjoys popular culture and is amused by the humour from the funny persons in the world system. We like to laugh as a merry heart does everyone good. We use the world as God teaches us to, we use the world, we venture into the world, but we are not of the world and the worldly enjoyments do not take us captive to their vanities. God giveth us richly all things to enjoy so enjoy them we will; after all, this is the day the LORD has made, right?  Aren’t we to rejoice and be glad in it? Everything under the heavens belongs to God, and Christ has inherited all things and Christ-ian….O’ Christian, know ye not?  Know ye not?  We …are …..joint-heirs with Christ, our Elder Brother…Give praise to God all ye that hath breathe. Please give glory to God.

Having written the above, now we are to make our point, our point as Solomon Kane makes his point with his rapier.

We will (DV) enjoy all that God richly bestows upon us.  We will be merry in our hearts as God allows, BUT when we come to the Word of God and we come unto the God of the Word…we are changed…in a twinkling of an eye, we are changed; we are changed to a spirit of soberness and gravity. God is to be treated differently, He is to be revered, and feared in a Holy Manner.  This is how we and others know God and His Son are matters of seriousness.

We are not saying everything has to be legalistic and depressed, dark and smokey…No, not at all.  We are to glorify God and enjoy Him for all times, this is the chief end of man. We have met God and when one meets God, one becomes an eternal being and we shall be with Him forever,  from now through forever, we need not wait to know Him deeply and to love Him radically.  “I had fainted, unless I had believed to see goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD : be of good courage, and [H]e shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.”