Happy,
My late friend, Dr. Ed Opitz of FEE, ran something he called “The Nockian Society” (actually one corner of Ed’s desk there in Irvington, NY) in memory of the Christian libertarian (and, no, those are not mutually exclusive terms) thinker and writer, Albert Jay Nock.
Ed sent me an essay by Nock entitled “Isaiah’s Job” and whenever I get a bit down or blue at the rising tide of idiocy and outright madness about us, I read it again and am refreshed.
It’s rather long and so as to conserve Jim Thompson’s (LOL) bandwidth here, below find a link to one of several sites where it may be found.
May you also be refreshed and renewed for the continuing battle ahead.
http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/isaiah.htm
It speaks to a truth that I live by which is "His lord said unto him, Well done, [thou] good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. " Matthew 25:21 There is really only One Source whose good opinion of any of us matters: that is the One we should be aiming to please in our life's efforts. I think often of the vertical effects that my efforts will create.
Will what I do matter to a fourth generation ?
Will it enable enough of The Remnant (as this essay describes it) to continue ?
The rest of it is "dross", or as my sister says, "it's all gonna burn."
Again, thanks.
I read the essay and related it to the “yeast in the dough” spoken of in the Bible.
Yeast is not “seen” as it works its purpose in the flour, but nevertheless is the agent that makes the dough rise; and in ths Biblical analogy, those who believe in Jesus Christ live in such a way that they act as the unseen element that lifts up the life around them. They are the Remnant.
Thanks for the post Dick. Read it and printed it out so that I can read it a few more times. Very thought provoking.