If one hits one’s thumb with a hammer, one swears, or at
least one almost does. We often do not
realize that this response is a learned one.
Not everyone does this. There is
pain when the hammer finds the thumb.
That is a natural consequence.
The swearing is optional and learned but what is down in the well is what
comes up in the bucket.
If we take that a bit further, then we must acknowledge that
most actions have natural consequences and learned responses. We make choices, we act, and consequences
follow. When we do wrong there are
consequences. Someone I love dearly was
trying to avoid the natural results of a wrong choice. When I mentioned that it was the consequence
of that choice, the plaintive response was, “I don’t want there to be
consequences.”
If we are honest, none of us want them. They fly in the face of our desire to control
outcomes and escape the unpleasant results of our choices. If we spend energy avoiding the consequences
of our choices, they are worse when they catch up to us. There are results that flow from our choices
and we increasingly as a culture try to avoid and ignore them.
If we do not care for each other, the world fills with
hatred and need. If we are not responsible,
we destroy the environment, society, and life.
We kill each other and justify it.
We engage in greed thinking that we can get away with it. The spring of our failure to love and be
responsible grows wound ever tighter.
I do not claim to be free from adding to the tension. I also hope to become better at working
against it. We are all crooked sticks
that fail in some way. It is my
obligation to work at healing the hurts and doing right by loving others. We cannot avoid the consequences of our
failures without grace and mercy from outside of us.
For the grander scheme that is found is Christ. We also need to find a deeper measure for it
in each other. We must, in love be more
patient, forgiving, and kind. It is in
this attitude that our failures can find mitigation. It is in Christ that we find freedom from the
ultimate consequence of our sin. It is
in each other that we can see the working out of forgiveness and grace. This
too is a choice with amazing consequences.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
home owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
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