Where a YES is a YES....
Written by AsgerP
Posted on Monday, July 14, 2008 at 09:07 AM.
Hi there.....
This is for all of us, myself included, who struggled with saying things......things that we know is right to say, but seem to have 1000 of excuses for not to say, 1000 of explanations of why we do not say it...........
But still it bother us - unless we in one way or the other "kill" that silent voice inside (consience) that keeps telling us; "you should have said that" - "you should have told" but instead you choose the easy-way-out....."you still want to be popular", "want the attention", "you dont want to hurt any one" - even you know that it WAS most correct to just say it, to tell it how it is.
Here it is that I find the Word of God, the Bible, have a verse that almost shout out - LET YOUR YES BE A YES AND A NO BE A NO.......and as if that was not shoking enough, it speeds up the volume in a huge after-shock saying "WHAT IS BEYOND THAT IS FROM THE EVIL.....". Ask me if I understand this ? NO...... then ask me if I do practice this in my life ? NO......
How did Jesus mean this ? If for take it litteraly I guess most Christians dis-qualify even after a short "heart-check". Of course it does not mean that we are ONLY to use the words YES and NO....that could turn out to be some quite comic conversations we then could have :-)
I guess that it mean something like our words have to be trust-worthy, that people know they can count on our words AND that we do tell the truth..... (so help me God...the whole truth and nothing but the truth...).
The thing is that you NEVER find Jesus concerned with other peoples feeling thinking like "I better not say this, it might hurt them"........actually you find Him quite often "millitary-tendency" speaking very straight forwarding - and a soft-heartened person like me, would probably often have feeling down by the tough words, I imagine. I guess the difference is that all the words were said in love - love speaks the truth....in some way.....the Son of God showed that....the God-head showed us that. I guess Jesus did NOT need to worry about trying to find His identity in "getting peoples popularity-polls" or "their clapping in their hands" (thanks Donald Miller!!!) - BECAUSE He knew who He was.....the God-Son knew His identity, He knew His value.....He did not need to try to find it in something or somewhere else !!!
The God-Son was NOT a victim of Chernobyl...the devastating fall of man where we started to look for our values EVERY other place than God.....that is where I wish to come one day.....to get there.........
The journey continues................... :-)
