“3 For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— 2 assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God’s grace that was given to me for you, 3 how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. 4 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit. 6 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 7 Of this gospel I was made a minister according to the gift of God’s grace, which was given me by the working of his power. 8 To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things, 10 so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord, 12 in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him. 13 So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you, which is your glory. Prayer for Spiritual Strength 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” (Eph 3:1–21 ESV)

The plane where magnificent Commerce is underway, this Plane is not always visible, but to the soldier helmeted in to Form and Placement, into Divine Utility and Usefulness, into Brandishing Knowledge already kept and the ken of What Is, versus the Desire to Know that spells Apple, spells Expulsion, spells some Bored natural Reaction of the sinner: reaction to Be front and center themselves when they weren’t Called.

Because the Plane of magnificent Commerce is never taken lightly as a God-given Right of the poor in spirit, of the meek of the earth, of the quieted of the gene pool. No, we approach Always in that holy brand of Fear as to whether we are Biting, into an apple, into a temptation, into Forbidden Knowledge. That Plane: nonetheless for those called and consecrated, it is a Natural outpouring of God-given Expediency and Surreptitious Survivalism and Making Do.

Commerce, because to look outwards from our helmeted in shell, is to see flames of the Spirit even as bodies come and they go, flames of Righteousness precisely because we were not Tempted but rather were Afforded, God-given Rectitude, Afforded an entry into the milieu called Tomorrow Reality: Today War, Tomorrow Reality.

We see peoples come and go; we see that lazy temptation, just a mite drop of Curiosity, “Tell me more!” And forgive each of us the sinner within, God coddles and whips up into right proper young men and women, the child in us who wants to Know, who nakedly Boasts or shows selfish Ambition: God overlooks our sins, because for those He has called, chosen, consecrated, and Sent, it is our innate Virtue as Dictated and Instilled by Him that matters. We are after all Holy vessels for Goodness in the world, and never need apologize Again, because Once saved, always saved.

Waves of commerce, then, induct first this one then right proper that one, to Know themselves as Agentic and Servants of the Crown: this is the marriage Ceremony that is celebrating Life, celebrating the vast potentialities as so often forgotten: wouldn’t you prefer, putting down your swords and instead Relishing and Attending the wedding banquet of Christ? Only some are feeling naked without their War, without their Murder in the spirit, without their Calculated Expediencies. Indeed, the culprit of Religion is those who see all the promises as, well, naturally that can’t be true, all of it is a lobster pot, a Device we view in worldly terms because Of Course you can’t just go around Forgiving people!

Daring to regard what Plane of Commerce is left us, as helmeted in we cease striving for ever widening circles of Ultimate Nature, and make do with the joy of what is in front of us: the joy of neighborliness in the countryside late into the conversational night, the joy of pondering how our meek actions might in fact be playing out; or not! Sometimes it is an “of course not!” that meets our higher hopes. Nonetheless, the Soldier in us seeks never to settle just for the expedient, never just for the haphazard wedding or regaled funeral, never just for the cordial acquaintances made across international borders, but seeks Conversion, that unique Experience we easily forget: this is me, what I’m all about!

Because our missives are not falling on deaf ears, insofar as the elation, ecstasy, elysium of Individual experiences, sipping that wine late together into the night, are Bank for the journey. They are Banked, and we relish the Post-Living Post-Dying reward that plenteous are our fond memories if and only if the times they require sustaining Hope; eager are we to Carry forth, lancing solidly into the night and waking bright and early to greet the day, the Gauntlet and Sceptre of a New Dispensation, outpouring of Spirit upon spiritual people: we the spirit of Christ in our hearts possessed, are ready and gaping about a New Thing, never properly quite recorded though perhaps Experienced by an ancestral presence, a spirit we never quite knew but did take joy in the stories of. These our Jewish bloodline, now made a gentile’s spiritual analog: to License the friends and the assimilated, to that loss of earthly regard and respect, for the exchange of a whittled down, poverty-afflicted, but Dreamily Hoping church public. Yes, we dare not boast, except in this: that Christ gave Himself, the love for the loveless shown.