“And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. ‘For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Cor 2:14-16 ESV)

Shadow frights and liminal danger zones, the Christian prayer Warrior always knows the Horizon Fright that it all was in their imagination. That Christianity cannot Engender and Mature in our hearts the Promises it entails. That we are Destined for a spirit of compromise only frightfully witnessed in our atheistic peers. 

Falling into the lap of Compassion, thus, the praying man, woman is devoted in solemn accord to their own Toolkit named Love. Investing in the community, the one doing the Loving, the Compassion, the Lap of Mercy, is making a wise investment choice. And like so much that is prophetic, entrepreneurial, forward-thinking, and inspired, this gamble, this trade-off, this bearing of Fruit, is denied, shunned, passed over with a judgmental Whisper. Sometimes the Truth is too in-your-face Optimistic for people en masse. So away with the Crowd Mentality, and towards the Individual participant, the one Lovingly engaged and Brought In.

We have an altar to eat from that even the most benign, loving, advanced (academically-speaking) thinkers on the subject haven’t quite had authorized or taught them. So we teach. We do acts of our own special Brand of Love. We may lack the conversational trill and Inducted sense of belonging, relevance, fittedness, but fitted and relevant and belonging we are.

Because our Savior, He indeed makes pundits and armchair philosophers of all of us, insofar as to philosophize is to Do Worship. It is to not earn the groans (“not a Christian we have here! I certainly dislike Christians!”) but to Recognize something infantile yet Beloved, Cultivated, Curated, in our conversational counterparts.

The soldier is working on Receptivity to the Love, that their Toolkit may have learned “in the field” to love on others. The soldier’s is a harsh brand of Love, insofar as we want Men, Able Women, Able Men at the top. We don’t want our totems to be mealy-mouthed or beggarly or compromised in Any Fashion: we want Certainty, Resolve, Strength, Unrelenting Purpose. And there are spirits “out there” who are thus Equipped, Modeled, Ready. To take on a hope-filled little miscreant like ourselves. Our lot in life… what Christian Calling, militant Enlistment, prayerful Ascent is about, is that we are Post-Decision: what we are is no nonsense brands of Certain Purpose and Camaraderie called Contributory: we contribute good works, with a benign Purview of the Cohort: these we love! These we Respect! And if we struggle to love, to respect a new cohort, well there is always prayer and Submission to Christ’s Spirit, who went to the Cross for His deniers and enemies.

Our purpose in the world is post-regret, post-retroactive fitting, post-resentment, post-ambition: what we are is Plain for all to see. Servants, for whom Christ has allotted the Prize Possession of Calling, of Mission, of an Investment in the bank account called Love.