iron

We are creatures of pattern, of habbit, of repetition. I was thinking this earlier while getting ready to bathe. I brush my hair, I find my flip-flops, I shampoo, condition, try not to let my bar of soap hit the ground while looking for my luffa, and so on. Even in the simplest of things.
It made me wonder what kind of patterns Jesus had. Or even God. Like when He was making the animals. Did he start with the color, or stripes, maybe the hoof or paw. I guess he could have just made them, but I find a kind of comfort in the pattern idea.

I was watching my friends talk about some hot subject right now. Gay rights, abortion, whatever. I don't even have to throw out positions, you know what they are. I stuck my thoughts in like everyone else, seeming like a better or worse person for saying them. Later on while I was thinking about pattrns, and how or who Jesus is. I wondered where He would stand. I was talking to some friends and my boyfriend about it, about Jesus and whether he made laws and tried to get people to believe them, or if he would just love people.
If you've noticed in the Bible the authors talk a lot about how he mainly talked in parables. I know the old testament proclaims we will know our messiah by his talking in parables. So, maybe Jesus would tell potentially pregnant or pregnant women parables.
Jesus was also direct though, like the time in the temple, where he flipped the tables and talked about not desecrating his fathers house. I don't think there were any parables there. Or in Mathew or like Mark where he is asked what the most important law, of all those given. He says it is to love the Lord thy God above all else. So he is direct.
Maybe he would give some direct parable, maybe he would tell us what to do, maybe he wouldn't. But I know as iron sharpens iron so a man should sharpen his brother in Christ, and sadly most conversation about that subject aren't started for growing or learning but for the sake of proving what we learned in our sunday school or saw on a video or read on some web site. Or maybe that's just how I have caught myself starting them, maybe it's my own human error. Maybe it's my a humanly flaw.

It's deffinitly a negitive pattren I have picked up. I think there is something in listening that is key to wisdom. Perhaps instead of mouthing off whatever I feel like I know that others don't, I will listen and think. Then open my mouth. Then say something. I know I have often knicked others instead of sharpening them.

Here's to improving our character, and trying to be upright again...