God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The theological roots of this concept of “vocation” are found in the biblical doctrine of creation and divine sovereignty. We are by God’s creative decree shaped in His image and thus designed to reflect in all our endeavors the purposeful activity of God Himself. All Christians, therefore, should ideally embrace their “work”, however secular and uneventful it may appear, as a calling of God, a responsibility for which they have been uniquely endowed that is designed in its own way to glorify God. One’s “job” or “career” or “occupation” thus has a meaning beyond mere personal fulfillment. “Ministry” is therefore not what the majority of Christians perform as “a discretionary time activity – something done with the few hours that can be squeezed out of the week’s schedule after working, sleeping, homemaking, neighbouring, washing and doing the chores” (Stevens, The Other Six Days, 132). It is, rather, all of life when discharged in faith.
So how does a person shut down conscience? Two ways: misinform it. Conscience is not a law; conscience is a mechanism. You can shut down pain, right? You can shut down pain; just take drugs. Mask pain. If you mask pain, you mask the reality that you’re doing some damage. You can mask conscience by misinforming it. How do you do that? You take the true law of God, which is written in Scripture and written in the human heart, and you basically eliminate it, denounce it, diminish it, remove it, and replace it with another law; and if you do this generationally you’ll eventually raise generations of people whose conscience is now informed by lies. The other thing you can do to shut down the conscience is just think you shouldn’t feel guilty. Let psychology take you off-the-hook: “You shouldn’t feel bad about yourself. You’re wonderful. You’re the best. You can be anything you want to be. You’re heroic. You’re a good person. You ought to be able to do whatever you want. You live any way you want. Don’t let anybody make you feel guilty for anything.” Just keep driving all efforts against the normal work of the conscience and misinform the conscience and you’ve turned the beast loose. This society in which we live today has been doing that damage for decades, for decades.
Mix first 4 ingredients. Place some plastic wrap in a mixing bowl that will
hold the mixture, put the mixture in this bowl and fold the plastic wrap
over the spread to fully cover. Chill in fridge at least 4 hours. Remove
from fridge, with the spread still wrapped remove it from the bowl & use
your hands to shape into a ball. Unwrap the spread, roll in the chives &
pecans to cover. Place on a platter & surround with assorted crackers &
veggie sticks.
NOTES : I use chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, canned. Try not to get too
much of the sauce as it makes the spread too runny. Finley chop the
peppers.
Recipe by: Christopher E. Eaves
Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 295 by "Christopher E. Eaves"
<cea260@airmail.net> on Nov 23, 97
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