“6 When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? 2 Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! 4 So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? 5 I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, 6 but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers! 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” (1 Cor 7:6-11 ESV)

The intangibles around any body of knowledge, the intangibles as said knowledge Increases, the ways the same gambit is circled around and approached Anew, with some acceptance of the implicit game, of the implicit joke or advocacy, of the implicit Transient and Efficacious holistic root, seed, vine branch: all this shows decades or more of battle scars and strange simple need for a little Intel or Instruction, some Teaching, some trusted parental Wholesome overview.

The intangibles mean never are we far from the daydream of a Sabbath rest, from the curiosity-driven Attack of a New Day’s burgeoning Invite, from the solemn What-If of an afternoon’s back-in-the-shop attitude. Indeed, being brought Low, we are also of Outwardly Cheerful disposition, strangely upheld in daydream and what-if Day’s Reckoning, even as one pillar after another calls itself into question. We adore and adhere to the simple Efficacy of parental, Fatherly (Motherly) no-nonsense in-our-corner cheer and encouragement.

The Christian is taught that there will be a reckoning, and accidentally almost this translates to present-day hardships, even amongst our church-going friends. The Christian soldier is of an intellect that easily goes childlike and limp, easily forgets the Dogged Determined Decisive move of a Faith that in all appearances Saved from an eternal downward spiral and damnation: at the right time, while we were yet sinners, Christ Died.

Because it’s all in the scriptures. It’s all there, that our Good Works… we blush and evade, but then manfully work up the courage to dispute properly: Good Works… shall I point to the Social Media feed of a few old-time friends as proof we are now in that business? The business of Good Works? Hardly! We mean it literally, that the enemy is that very Doctrine and Idol.

Everyone has their hearth and Homestead with the Father, with the Mother, where in some sense they “deserve” or rather affectionately are dutifully Given, the hearth and the affection. We can feel, if not deserving, then nonetheless Guaranteed, by that elder Brother Christ who showed all the world’s Plague and Hardship in His mortal frame, that we might come before the throne Sealed and Destined for the heavenly realms.

That elder Brother and the strange mistakes of the common observer: Oh, isn’t the dynamic this-and-such or that-and-so around us all being good ol’ friends ‘round here? Some assert non-religion. Some assert fear of God. Some assert any number of levels of right worship, of calm half-religion. And are therefore innocent of that atheistic Politicking that does do murder and genocide. Today, we are called to Appreciate and say “Come up Here!” alongside the Spirit of Christ, to a platform where loved ones are all present, to a gestalt wonkish and intellectually curious, to a level playing field wherein sadly overnight a broad umbrella gave way to dastardly undoing of the entire edifice by some immature or uneducated Statements made and trust wrongly allocated.