24 May 2024
What are we to do? Getting us from where we are to where God wants us to be leads through destruction we cannot imagine.
The reason the majority of American women worship themselves is because of social conditioning and false norming of this idolatry. I've already said often enough that it was already built into Western Civilization, but had been hidden from conscious awareness until recent generations. This is the nature of the West. It's out in the open now, and it's so hideous it defies description.
Part of what Jack has been doing involves offering at least a glimpse, a vision, of what God could do to put things right if we turned to Him. What does Covenant manhood look like? Not just a passing acquaintance; we need to examine the depth building and working across multiple generations, as the Covenant expects.
It's far more than what any single man could do. The biblical image is not cast in terms of what you individually should do. It's always laid out before us as a vision of community. What do men do when they gather as covenant brothers? How do they act? Are they seized by a vision of building up each other as God's treasure on earth?
I'm going to tell you that, no matter how much theory we propose, it almost certainly will not turn out as we imagine. That's because the truth of the Covenant is that it is planted in a context, that it must blossom in situ. Whatever we have today is so close to being wiped away that it's very hard to pin down much because we have very little grasp of what God is bringing toward us.
Sure, we could know something about our focus and what motivates us should we happen to survive, but we cannot know much about the specifics. We can't estimate what will be "normal" for humans.
What kind of trauma will cause women to abandon their idols? What proportion of the American population has to die? What has to be destroyed? To what level of grubbing survival mode will the people be reduced? What will satisfy the wrath of God?
My convictions suggest to me now that I will not survive this catastrophe. But I am so certain one is coming that it's never far away from my conscious mind to wonder what I can do to answer such great need before it comes. How can we provide a frame of reference for those who follow us? What could we do to season the minds of men who might survive?
How do we make the Covenant seem like the answer to this dire situation?
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