11 February 2024
Over and over again: The real conflict we face is informational. It's not about the boots on the ground, nor the bodies lying in trenches. Those are but the symptoms. Were it not for the lies, those boots and bodies would be at home. Orwell's vision was a kindergarten party compared to the "Orwellian" lies being told today.
I'm sure readers already understand, intellectually at least, that we face a tsunami of deceptions in the broadcast services and on the Net. You should be skeptical of everything, even this blog. And you should be thoroughly cynical about the motives of everyone who tries to make noise.
Paul's letter to the Galatian churches is a study in facing propaganda. Notice his primary solution: Trust your heart to know the truth. Once submitted to the Presence of the Holy Spirit, your heart will guide you unfailingly. I write that not in the sense of literal perfection, but in the sense of maturity that de-emphasizes things that aren't your concern. When you know your convictions, you know what you must do to keep peace with God. You then learn to leave everything else alone.
We have far less interest in getting the precise facts, in part because the facts seldom matter in the end. Part of this is because "the facts" includes the motives of the primary actors who make all the noise. To some degree, we cannot know their motives. We can infer them, but only from our own limited perspective. We should know this world in terms of a mere working model, a provisional conception of things. The primary actors may not know their own motives, only what drives them. People who are not in contact with their own hearts would hardly know why they do what they do.
We should assume that the people in the ruling class only rarely know their own hearts. It's generally a necessity that they be dead inside to seek power in the first place. It leaves them open to spiritual manipulation. The powers of the elohim council allied with the Devil are greater than we can imagine, driving their lackeys in ways no human can comprehend. In the final analysis, they are the only real enemies we have in this life. Paul warns in Ephesians 6 that they are the real problem, and the facts on the ground often are inherently deceptive. We need to operate from our hearts in the moral and spiritual awareness that transcends factual awareness. We need that spiritual armor and a keen focus on what spiritual warfare means.
Spiritual warfare is defeating your own internal resistance to God's glory. It's not defeating the demons and powers "out there" around us. It's defeating them inside ourselves, removing ourselves from their control. They would prefer to distract us with facts on the ground, as if that's what really matters. They condition us to ignore spiritual truth.
Here is the fundamental and ultimate truth worthy of our attention: Our Creator is worthy of all glory and obedience. The next most important thing to know is that He speaks reliably in the hearts of His people. Thus, the key to living in this world is learning to hear your own heart, to read your own convictions. The gift of the Holy Spirit is far less about all the miraculous things He can do through you; the core of His Presence is clarity in your own self-knowledge.
A part of my mission is to cultivate an awareness of human activity in this world. In obedience to that calling, I spend a lot of time every day reading highly varied sources of information about things I am trained to understand with my mind. I don't even believe half of it, but what matters is the stories they are trying to sell. The issue is knowing how the lies are intended to steer human behavior at large and how to reject those lies. The lies are discerned not by the facts so much as by how they violate what God has revealed.
Given the overwhelming depth of deception built into our world today, it takes time and effort to shift our thinking to be more receptive to the higher moral truth of God. This is what justifies studies in things like Pageau's The Language of Creation and other books we will examine on this blog.
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