Disciple
We are Dear Reader, all disciples of one sort or another. Some are more obvious than others, i agree. However in truth we all follow something, it just remains to be seen what? or who?
For dear reader, a disciple is one who follows a person or idea, and all do so, it is just most do not recognise it. In times past whole countries have followed teachings of now famous leaders and come to be communist in their thinking. Others have stood against this thinking so strongly that far from the freedom they so strongly proclaim, their teachings have led their countries down paths of bigotry and fear, a nations of disciples where any signs of communism was met by loss of work!
Now Dear Reader, while we scoff and laugh and consider the foolishness of these extremes, can we pause to consider where and how we live, and ask what are we disciples of? Not what we would loudly proclaim from roof tops as our statement, but that which our lives loudly proclaim by action. For what a person does, that is what they are disciple of! For many in western world, a god of money has become the one to follow and emulate, to spend one's life in service to the dollar, pound, or punt. Some though have lesser means, at least financially, but no less desire to follow god's of selfishness, hedonism, or self-security... the list can be added to extreme.
Some however, a few, such precious few have actually left these god's behind, and moved to follow one in action as well as declaration which says that life is not to serve one self, but in response to love, to serve another as one self.
It would be clearer to all if we could see that declaration alone means nothing, without actions of life to fulfill the statement. So that many who falsely claim this name of disciple of this God are in truth, impostors to themselves and us. Leading themselves and others into paths of ignorance about the truth of the God whose name they so abash. So much so, that truth now becomes more difficult to see.
So Dear Reader I ask, firstly, who do you declare as your god, that you follow with your heart, but more importantly, who do others see you follow, by the actions you impart.
For dear reader, a disciple is one who follows a person or idea, and all do so, it is just most do not recognise it. In times past whole countries have followed teachings of now famous leaders and come to be communist in their thinking. Others have stood against this thinking so strongly that far from the freedom they so strongly proclaim, their teachings have led their countries down paths of bigotry and fear, a nations of disciples where any signs of communism was met by loss of work!
Now Dear Reader, while we scoff and laugh and consider the foolishness of these extremes, can we pause to consider where and how we live, and ask what are we disciples of? Not what we would loudly proclaim from roof tops as our statement, but that which our lives loudly proclaim by action. For what a person does, that is what they are disciple of! For many in western world, a god of money has become the one to follow and emulate, to spend one's life in service to the dollar, pound, or punt. Some though have lesser means, at least financially, but no less desire to follow god's of selfishness, hedonism, or self-security... the list can be added to extreme.
Some however, a few, such precious few have actually left these god's behind, and moved to follow one in action as well as declaration which says that life is not to serve one self, but in response to love, to serve another as one self.
It would be clearer to all if we could see that declaration alone means nothing, without actions of life to fulfill the statement. So that many who falsely claim this name of disciple of this God are in truth, impostors to themselves and us. Leading themselves and others into paths of ignorance about the truth of the God whose name they so abash. So much so, that truth now becomes more difficult to see.
So Dear Reader I ask, firstly, who do you declare as your god, that you follow with your heart, but more importantly, who do others see you follow, by the actions you impart.
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