Taking Action and Action Taken
I'm consumed by making things happen. I want to be productive. I want to move on tasks to produce my desired results. I live this way often. I feel in control when I live like this.
Jesus lived this way. He took action. The world bent around him when we walked into the room. He took action and the world was forced to deal with it.
I also am formed by the actions of others. Where the ability to Act is Taken from me.
I feel out of control in these circumstances. I might think like a victim in these times.
Jesus lived like this also. After the last supper with his close friends, Action was taken upon him. He no longer acted, but was acted upon.
I vasilate between this to extremes.
I'm consumed by making things happen. I want to be productive. I want to move on tasks to produce my desired results. I live this way often. I feel in control when I live like this.
Jesus lived this way. He took action. The world bent around him when we walked into the room. He took action and the world was forced to deal with it.
I also am formed by the actions of others. Where the ability to Act is Taken from me.
I feel out of control in these circumstances. I might think like a victim in these times.
Jesus lived like this also. After the last supper with his close friends, Action was taken upon him. He no longer acted, but was acted upon.
I vasilate between this to extremes.
posted by mark at
12:16 PM
1 Comments:
I finally found what seems to be the key to this dilemma. Back-thinking John 17:3 to the intimacy implied in Genesis 1-2, the Psalms, Song of Solomon, and more, it seems the deal is to be engaged with Jesus to the point where the passion to become the person he always dreamed you could be becomes the transformative agent to then do the things you ought to do. I am finding recently the acts of my life to possess a similar effect on my environment - where supernatural things occur that cannot be explained away. I think we are constantly being acted-upon and must respond repeatedly to those who would "take our lives". Even more so probably when our acts are initiated by God. I don't know.
What I do know is this intimacy with God causes me to act in "unnatural" ways that hvae caused me to rethink life from a much higher place.
Dayn
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