Today, consumptive addictions ranging from
gluttony to cocaine are common everywhere.
Disobedience's lethargy and negligence are in denial
of any wisdom from the proverbial ant. And
concomittant to this is the desperate need to always
be in that comfortable, climate-controlled room or
vehicle, sipping sugary sodas or alcoholic beverages.
Enigmatic, premature deaths such as heart attacks,
cancers, and fatal car crashes are too often primary
indications of Almighty God's Spirit of providential,
judgmental wrath, not usually seen in introspection
or in observation.
Abandonment to an unfortunate, premature fate is
too often brought on by negligences that have
devolved into permanentized behaviors. We are
judged for our consumptive addictions . . .
The virtue of a flowing, voluntary sweat, that is,
when we perform tasks that require the humility of
manual labor, this labor can become an aversion
that devolves in a organism that has lost any ability
to continue to endure temporary adversity.
An inactived flow of sweat is one indication of a
person who has chosen to become lukewarm, a
spiritually immature or dead organism.
In this context we observe lukewarm behaviors and
characteristics, preponderant and required by too
many of modern civilization's corruptible people,
listed as follows:
1) Air-Conditioning; rejection of environments
without A/C . . .
2) Sedentary vocations causing obesity . . .
3) Under-achievement & greed; income
disproportionate to skills and effort . . .
4) Disobedience and rebellion that places
unreasonable demands on employers and the state;
5) Failed attitudes that devolve into hatred of God
and people, often consummating in suicides.
We have it within our power to volunteer to
perform tasks and mitzvahs (good deeds) that
require a meritorious flow of sanctifying, disciplined
sweat. This flow fosters a good attitude and a
spinal fortitude that will survive any time of
tribulation.
Humble manual labors, physical fitness by exercise,
self-denial of A/C especially when alone, household
tasks such as lawn and garden, military enlistment,
the academic anguish of higher education; always,
this internalized readiness to sweat and overcome, is
one attribute that develops personalities who revel in
life's oscillating instances of pain and pleasure.
In Millennial Civilization, the saints will experience
the intensification of protracted pleasure, augmented
and enhanced by the contrast of a mature,
prayerful, voluntary endurance of the relatively
brief, temporal discomforts of sweat and pain. AMEN.
gluttony to cocaine are common everywhere.
Disobedience's lethargy and negligence are in denial
of any wisdom from the proverbial ant. And
concomittant to this is the desperate need to always
be in that comfortable, climate-controlled room or
vehicle, sipping sugary sodas or alcoholic beverages.
Enigmatic, premature deaths such as heart attacks,
cancers, and fatal car crashes are too often primary
indications of Almighty God's Spirit of providential,
judgmental wrath, not usually seen in introspection
or in observation.
Abandonment to an unfortunate, premature fate is
too often brought on by negligences that have
devolved into permanentized behaviors. We are
judged for our consumptive addictions . . .
The virtue of a flowing, voluntary sweat, that is,
when we perform tasks that require the humility of
manual labor, this labor can become an aversion
that devolves in a organism that has lost any ability
to continue to endure temporary adversity.
An inactived flow of sweat is one indication of a
person who has chosen to become lukewarm, a
spiritually immature or dead organism.
In this context we observe lukewarm behaviors and
characteristics, preponderant and required by too
many of modern civilization's corruptible people,
listed as follows:
1) Air-Conditioning; rejection of environments
without A/C . . .
2) Sedentary vocations causing obesity . . .
3) Under-achievement & greed; income
disproportionate to skills and effort . . .
4) Disobedience and rebellion that places
unreasonable demands on employers and the state;
5) Failed attitudes that devolve into hatred of God
and people, often consummating in suicides.
We have it within our power to volunteer to
perform tasks and mitzvahs (good deeds) that
require a meritorious flow of sanctifying, disciplined
sweat. This flow fosters a good attitude and a
spinal fortitude that will survive any time of
tribulation.
Humble manual labors, physical fitness by exercise,
self-denial of A/C especially when alone, household
tasks such as lawn and garden, military enlistment,
the academic anguish of higher education; always,
this internalized readiness to sweat and overcome, is
one attribute that develops personalities who revel in
life's oscillating instances of pain and pleasure.
In Millennial Civilization, the saints will experience
the intensification of protracted pleasure, augmented
and enhanced by the contrast of a mature,
prayerful, voluntary endurance of the relatively
brief, temporal discomforts of sweat and pain. AMEN.
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