Context is Key: All Things Which Are Subsist by Christ

Testimonials again, for a time.

Perhaps.

There are so many places online where bits and pieces of thought have been left. So much pain, so much confusion. So much hope, so much of a longing for love.

Little peace. Very little peace.

I was reminded through a friend, this weekend, that so much of my life prior to relationship with Christ was about saving people.

I used to tell people, "I use my evil for good." And I meant it, completely oblivious to the impossibility. Good intentions were considered sufficient to qualify the results.

Good intentions amount to willful ignorance of actual harm, except God intervene--our motives are just too mixed and our perspectives too limited to allow for anything else, given the presence of any sort of darkness.

Regardless, though, He does intervene. A lot. More than we can begin to conceive of, given how much darkness and death and despair we yet do and can see in the world. He intervenes a lot for things to be only so dire as they are--substantial consideration to undertake when seriously refraining from anywise undermining such pain and suffering as is present.

Yet we all limit Him.

We all, in some way, by some measure...don't seem willing to take Him at His word. If only per our ignorance and unwillingness to know Him.

He says He's willing to be known by those who truly want to know Him, though.
Jesus is totally willing. He paid dearly to be able to make way for all and any who would desire to know Him--to know God.

It just means letting go, is all. Letting go of "safe" assumptions: Letting go of preconceived notions which fit in with and comprise our present perception of reality.

Letting go of the idea that we know anything at all, moreover.

Coming to know Him means coming increasingly to realize the disparity between actual truth and generally accepted reality.

There's so much to be known. And in context of all of history, present and past. And deception abounds. Even largely due to willful ignorance.

Suppressing the truth in unrighteousness equates to that, in a sense--willful ignorance: Refusing to acknowledge the truth, despite already having effectively realized it. And then actively suppressing it, unto a state of delusion which vehemently denies the whole process of suppression has taken place. It's not really ignorance, is the thing. Suppression of truth to the point of completely rejecting it was ever known? Not really ignorance, as it's intentional delusion.

He allows it, though, since we want it.

Which is heart-breaking.

...He doesn't relish the death of sinners. He takes no pleasure in their punishment.

He's not like us.

He's just. Wholly good.
Unwaveringly orderly.

On such a scale, though, that we aren't even capable of comprehending His categorical delineations, in effect (see: debates between Arminians and Calvinists).

So coming to know Him increasingly devastates any sense of having fully arrived at a point of understanding His ways--if it's actually Him we're coming to know, at least, and if we're continuing to pursue Him. Spending time with Him. Getting to know Him. Like any relationship--it takes time. Quality time--not passive moments.

Which...conversely, coming to know Him casts greater light on everything else, making all else more comprehensible.

Everything which can be understood will be more deeply comprehended in the context of an increasing awareness of reality's actual constructs (i.e., in light of understanding the Creator and His ways and will). Shadows of uncertainty slowly fade. Lies disintegrate. Fogs of delusion gradually disperse and drift away.

Darkness flees. As the light reveals truth. He is the light.

Possibility for comprehension just depends upon what is being considered: contemplating God, we can delve eternally deeper into an experiential understanding of who He is without ever beginning to broach comprehensive awareness of Him; whereas, when depths of truth are increasingly sounded in and through Him, simultaneously is the pall fallen upon reality per sin-wrought delusion incrementally dispelled.

Put another way:
Truth doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is most easily discerned and understood in context of that to which it applies. Yet the truth of God--who He is and how He is--is too vast for our minds to grasp. But...we can and are given ability and privilege to draw ever deeper into understanding and personally knowing Him, through Christ. And as He is The Truth, all understanding only truly has sound bearing and foundation as it's realized and pursued within context of knowing and understanding Him.

Otherwise, truth has been divested to some extent already, but at the most fundamental level possible. So, there are going to be flaws in logic, flaws in understanding, flaws in the "fundamental" principles perceived as operative.

That's just the way things work--if the foundation isn't sound, then neither will the structure be.

So--again, conversely--coming to understand Him to any degree means simultaneously realizing truer context and connotation and consistency of and for all else which exists, as it does exist in and through and by Him.

This isn't at all what was intended to be written about.

If this is what He would have, then well be it. I hadn't considered these things in a while. And especially hadn't realized particular aspects of interplay in quite how and why reality has been so completely recast by realization of who God is.

It's pretty intimidating. Scary, moreover:

Letting go.

Considering all this in relation to what modern, western science perceives as mental health is a very strange recent undertaking--turning a blind eye to God while simultaneously attempting to chart what constitutes well-being and right-thinking is fundamentally flawed. And, unfortunately, the founders of much of what abounds as general understanding of the principles of mental order...despised and rejected God, outright.

So, fundamental flaws have only been exacerbated by the continued decline of regard for truth in western society.

We live in a very strange world.

Demons cavort while angels camouflage.
There are many days where I wonder whether any I meet are angels.
Definitely have met many demons. No longer intentionally, for sure.

But western science denies the reality of these things--they're not discernible according to strictly physical means, so aren't considered relevant. They don't cater to our will, so we refuse to acknowledge them.