GD9a The Blame Game
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-02-16

Continued from Episode 8's focus on the daily grind:  now, focus is on the inner and outer 'blame game' played in your soul; and outwardlly, to and from the world.  This repeats the Trial Satan underwent, pre-Fall.  Same test Christ faced.  Satan lost, Christ won, but uh.. Christ is God-man.  So Satan contends we mere sinner humans can't pass the test like Christ did.  For us, the issue is not perfection, but staying the course, 2Tim4:7-8, Heb 11 and 12:2, Eph 4:12-16, 3:15-19 being the hardest part of it, as Paul reports in 2 Cor12:9-10.  WEAKNESS.  MATURATION IN WEAKNESS.

You become 'weak' as you know God more, because your standards change.  You begin to see God more and more as He really is, and the more you see, the more you hate yourself.  So the test changes:  do you cave into false ideas of righteousness like 99.9% of Christianity, with its focus on popularity, being respectable, the 'world' looking at you?  Or do you truck on, learning and living on Bible, which no one sees, and less than no one.. values?

Here in 9a, it's mostly an inner battle of you versus you.  Will God become even more important than your own shortcomings, as you progressively gain in keen awareness of how great HE is?  Will HIS importance 'trump' your own self-loathing?  It's the same as Psalm 22:6, 2Cor12:9-10.

In 9b we'll look at the broader picture, because the door swings both ways.  Here you are, loathing yourself the more you know Him;  but at the same time, the world becomes more obviously PUNY to you, and especially the self-righteous Christians in it, who think they are spiritual giants, instead of the pygmies they really are.  So how do you put up with that, too?  See: it really is the hardest way to live, you're being put on the mental 'rack', pulled in all directions, with the goal to make you QUIT THE COURSE and CAVE INTO the world's (really Satan's) ideas of 'righteousness'.

God's Deed of PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, versus (Satan's) your 'good deed' of PERFORMANCE.  That's the issue, in the Trial.  Fought every moment, in your own soul and with yourself.  Conquered only by, Philippians 3:13-14, forgetting it and moving on in favor of SEEING GOD.  A kind of KOKO due to focus on Him.  For when you're weak, then He's strong:  His Power is completed (English legal verb 'perfected') IN YOUR WEAKNESS, 2Cor12:9's Greek.

This is the maturation lesson which Christianity never understands, as it equates spirituality with popularity.  So no one 'got it' when Christ went to the Cross.  So no one 'gets it' now, that this is the same course of maturation, for the Christian.  WWJD!  What Word Jesus Dianoia'd!