Policy and Method

It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking a certain way of doing things is what will work, but as Christians we're basically told that that will not necessarily work. Unless you happen to consider as your method the way that God already does things, which is usually not the case as it's hard to accept.

It is easy to fall into trusting policies and methods to solve problems. From what I've seen so far, the actual solution is usually something we don't expect. In the moment we often think we understand problems completely in the big picture, but the recurring fact is that we never, ever really do. Especially when we really think we do- the thing we are inclined to make an exception of this rule. Even those of us who accept this will make exceptions- I do it, even though I've seen this since I was a child. I will want to say that this one thing always works, but it just doesn't. I have also learned that what makes 'this one thing' work in the cases where it does is wisdom.

The example of where I was thinking about this was specifically government policy, I suppose. So many at this time think that if we enacted something in policy, then things would be solved. I am at the point where I see that it will not work, and it probably isn't even possible, to 'fix' what's happening with policy (go ahead, for now, and imagine which side I'm on ;) ). The only true solution is to go back to the most basic level of family and church and do what we ought to have been doing all this time, but forgot because we go off into our Executive Mindsets and think Big and Nationwide is the solution.

God is counterintuitive- He turned the world topsy-turvy. History shows that He is right, too, I believe. The falling of small stones starts an avalanche, and likely the beginning seed that started what we see is not even possible to find out (much to my consternation). I have begun to be very strongly convinced that the Christian's little stones is exactly what God has been drilling into our heads from the beginning of Scripture. Every little principle, love of neighbour. No. It is not a specific kind of love of neighbour. It is merely love of neighbour, agape, charity. And the trouble of that is that you have to follow God and actually look to Him first to find the definitions. That is actually The Christian Walk- we don't know it all, we are gradually learning how little we know, and constantly having to hold out our hands empty and say 'I do not know, You do- show me what I must do.'

We do not trust God if we rely first on the world's prescription of How To Fix Things (and what they should look like, too), and then when that fails turn to God's way- this only makes us mercenary Christians. Kings and nations fall to the ground. We know this. All the Wisdom of Man will fall into dust. It does not continue. It is a deception, an illusion we keep giving in to, even when it betrays us right and left (to our anxiety and despair). The only solution is God's way, the way that fits with all the facets of reality.