It is good to have one who “gets” you, understands you (to whatever measure they do) even receives you in all your weaknesses, foibles, and even contradictions of yourself that others might easily call hypocrisy. Yes, it is good to have someone who with whom you not only can be, but with whom you are as open as you can be, and are open to you as you are.
To say this is rare among men and in the earth, even exquisitely rare as to be beyond precious to a man would only be contradicted by any who have not traveled much in relationship(s). Our facades, even any man’s facades, only become known to a man through this journey with another.
(Marriage is not easy…but it is real. Its very hardness is what testifies to its being quite real.)
We learn (or may) just how much of artifice has been constructed, and in that may see just how much of work and energies and strenuous labors have been, and are able to be spent, and even perhaps yet still in the offing to be spent, for the maintenance in service to what we could call our personal identity. This thing we present one anther in total reliance upon their feedback for verification.
It sounds silly to say it, but it is a sort of passport we present for all our commerce amongst one another. “I see Mr. So and So, that what you present here is saying who you are and that you are you, and I find it acceptably verified. You may pass through”. And, we are accepted.
Silly, no?
But so silly it is true? Or even, so silly because it is true?
To say we are always in need of some verification of who we are, some feedback that not only are we real in the sense of a recognition from outside of ourselves, but that without this we would be lost to the insanity of either not knowing anything at all, or worse, imagining we are the only one who does. Know anything.
Have you ever been down that road? Did you discover some form of terror in the isolation you make for yourself? Thinking you are the only one who really knows? Not yet?
Too soon?
You needn’t worry if you haven’t, or can’t yet concede to the folly that any would ever think of you as one who inwardly embraces being the only one who “really knows”. The steps are perfectly ordered anyway. They all start with “I know better than that.” And are even continued in, and reinforced by, “But now I know better”.
A man is just a witness. Even a witness as to “how he sees himself”.
We, who may have anything to “do” with Jesus Christ from merest curiosity, to some interest, to some deeper interest…even perhaps on to a thing called devotion are in some level of awareness of this thing of “how we see” and/or even, “how I see myself”.
Some may be a little bit more aware of the smoke and mirrors of it all, others may be just gaining entry. But a good start is a good start and none should despise the day of small beginnings.
This is merely part 1 of this treatment. Part 2 starts with the acknowledgment of God as God and from that point on He and you will begin to write a part 2. And its totality is far to grand for me or any man to write of you…or for you.
But for now Part 1 stands as to the frailty of all our smoke and mirrors before the eye(s) of Him that searches all, sees all…and cannot be fooled. And offers mercy for those who are caught in fooling even themselves as to who they are. And from there seeks to make a fool of every other man in that deception. Thinking he can puff himself up enough for another fool to believe he is who he says he is.
Every king but one must end in disdain for those of his kingdom seeing how easily they are fooled by believing he has something they do not. Or that he is something they are not. “I have a divinity or divine right”…you do not.
A king over fools only finds himself King of the Fools.
To one King and one only it is precious to Him that His own believe He is who He says, for He is/was not ashamed to be just as they are. And to give all of Himself honestly without deception to, and for, His own.
Of myself I can do nothing.
The Father is greater than “I”.
Have you yet seen anything greater than your self?
Or…are you still the judge of all others?
Eventually you will find your very own self in that docket and forced to be a witness against him.
Happy are you if you believe there is one who will judge that case with mercy. And grants repentance.
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