Nakedness, Tough Guys and False Expectations

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Don Merritt

The tough guys never bothered me in Junior High School; that is something you should understand right from the first. Yet even though they didn’t bother me, they bothered everyone else, unless you were one of my friends. I was what one of my teachers called “an early bloomer” which I took to be a reference to the fact that when I was 12 years old, I was six feet tall and under my mother’s strict orders to shave every day.

That particular year was the year that my classmates and I went from Elementary School to Junior High School, and we had been told by everyone that bad things happen in Junior High School. In Junior High School, you went from being the oldest in the school to the youngest, and the oldest in the school, the ninth-graders loved to pick on the seventh-graders. We would be bullied, badgered, thrown into trash cans and beat up periodically, and the girls would laugh at us. We would be required to take PE (physical education) and in PE everybody was required to shower together before you could leave. Oh yes, and all of the classes would be harder and move faster, and you might not be smart enough to make it through.

Yet these are the horror stories we heard from teachers; the ones we heard from older kids were truly terrifying. If the truth were to be told, I wasn’t all that concerned about the ninth-graders; I knew that I was bigger and stronger than most (all as it turned out) and that I was an excellent athlete, so I figured I could probably handle any eventuality in dealing with the tough guys. I wasn’t worried about the classes being harder; after all I was often teased for being a “brainiac”. Being laughed at by girls was something I was used to… except in dodgeball where they begged for mercy, which was almost always granted. The only thing that really concerned me about going to Junior High School was the showering part; that would be very awkward for me.

The funny thing about that is that I used to skinny dip with my friends quite often in our old neighborhood, but two years previously we had moved to a new neighborhood, to a house that had no pool, on a street that had no kids my age. This was a new development in that I was, at the time, isolated to a certain extent; I had to ride a bus to school, and I had no friends near my house, so no skinny dipping for over two years now. Yet the real problem was that everything about me had changed since then, and while I would never had admitted it at the time, I felt like something of a freak. I wondered if I was the only one. Some of my classmates’ voices were beginning to change, but I had finished with all of that over a year ago, and none of my friends were even thinking about shaving… was I going to have to beat people up in the showers for making smart remarks about… changes? Talk about awkward!

Let’s remember friends that these are the thoughts and insecurities of a 13-year-old…

As it turned out, when school started that September, I was right about some things, and wrong about others: I was right about the ninth-graders; not one of them ever gave me any trouble, and I actually became quite accepted in their midst. I was right about the classes; easy peasy. I was also right about the tough guys in general; no problems with them. In fact, they ended up being quite friendly. The girls still laughed, and since there was no dodgeball after Elementary School, I had no way to keep it under control, so I had to endure their peculiar form of torment and torture. My mother told that they did it because they liked me, and that’s when I knew that she had lost all semblance of rational thought.

The showering part however, I was completely wrong about. On the very first day, I noticed something very interesting: There were no tough guys in the showers. They might have been what toady is called “bullies” before the shower, and after the shower, but never in the shower, for in the shower they didn’t have their tough guy pants, and their tough guy boots and shirts; no, there they were just like everyone else. Oh yes, it turned out that I wasn’t that much of a freak after all, I was just the tallest. What had seemed so uncomfortable, so awkward, was not nearly as scary as I had thought it would be.

Junior High School was a cakewalk.

The more I think about it, the more I must conclude that nakedness is the most brilliant metaphor of all time, for it so richly illustrates what we go through in building relationships; with friends and co-workers, family, spouses and most of all with God Himself. More to the point, it illustrates the process of growing in community with other believers.

I fully realize that like moving on to Junior High School, this seems difficult, but also like Junior High School, it isn’t as difficult as we might expect. Oh, I know that there are church communities in which many are waiting for the chance to point fingers of accusation at others, as they hide behind their attractive masks of phony righteousness; I’ve had plenty of people tell me that they find themselves in such a location. Each time I hear such things I can’t help but wonder why they would remain there, if it is all that bad.

Of course, if we are in the habit of being naked before God, being naked before God in community really isn’t as much of a challenge as it might sound when you really think about it, for deep down, I think we all know that even though new things can be awkward, they really aren’t as tough as they might sound at first.

Next time, I’ll continue along this line of thinking; see you then!

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Hosea Continues the Pattern

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Don Merritt

We’ve seen Hosea’s pattern: Israel slips more and more into sin and away from God, then into idolatry. After that sin multiples dramatically. God sees all of this and sends messengers of warning to the people, who scoff at them; they aren’t all that interested in returning to God. Then God tells them that He will execute judgment against them and shows us that the reason for the judgment is to bring the people back into relationship with Him so that they may be saved from their own wickedness, ending up with a message that points us to Christ Himself.

In our brief study thus far, we’ve seen the pattern more than once already.

A few people have asked me why I don’t write about the books of prophecy more often, and this is why− they tend to repeat, and I find myself having to repeat the same things over and over each time. Of course, I could always approach them differently. I could forget about context and try to force them into thrilling end of the world narratives, you know, make a good story out them. While that would probably make for more entertaining reading, it would be at best, unethical, and at worst, a sin against God to do so knowingly.

Hosea continued through the end of chapter 7 with his pattern, and then began again in chapter 8 and went through chapter 13, this time in some extra detail, yet the same message: Israel has run out of time, it is going to face Judgment very shortly, and it may interest you to know that the Assyrian campaign actually began while Hosea was still writing.

Yet not every last person there was unfaithful, there were still a few who, like Hosea, remained true to their God. I can’t help but wonder if those last few were the ones to whom chapter 14 was written, for it contains a final appeal for repentance, confession and trust in God’s mercy. In our next and final edition of our Hosea study, let’s take a look at the ending of the book, and see how this message of hope was delivered. See you then.

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Naked Before God: In Community

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Don Merritt

Up to this point we have been discussing being naked before God in our own personal worship, individually; just God and you. This can and should be a wonderful time, regularly observed. Yet it is not the end of matter by a long stretch; rather, it is the beginning. God made humanity for community, and His purpose and will is that this community would be in fellowship with Him, thus becoming His very expression of who and what He is; we saw quite clearly in our examination of His image a couple of years ago, that this was His intention from the very beginning.

For most of us however, it is one thing to be naked before God in privacy and safety, but it is quite another thing to be naked before one another in any sense of the term. Certainly, in the literal physical sense of the term, the notion of baring all in front of others is simply outside the scope of what is even thinkable or acceptable for most people, and you will no doubt be relieved to learn that I have no intention of going there, for that is entirely too simplistic and hardly scratches the surface.  You see, this isn’t a matter of simply baring body; it’s a matter of baring soul, of being real, genuine and letting people see who we really are. It is about trusting, caring and loving others in a way that allows us to put their interests ahead of our own, not just in word, but in deed.

We could say that in this whole discussion, that “naked” actually means “relationship”, and that would be a very wise and insightful observation, for that is what it really comes down to. Yet it isn’t just relationship, it goes deeper, to the quality of the relationship. Recall that for us to be naked before God means that our relationships with Him are intimate, open, no holds barred, with everything out in the open. There is no holding back, no attempts to deceive and no barriers of any kind. To be naked before God in community with other believers is that there is the same level of openness between us and the others as there is between us and God, and obviously, such a human community requires that there be many who have matured enough in their relationships with God to be able to handle this level of intimacy with other people.

This dear reader is what it means to make disciples; it begins with godly love.

Far too many Christians are under the mistaken impression that making disciples is little more than making “converts”, but nothing could be further from the truth. Making disciples is really the ultimate act of love in action wherein we lovingly guide another into the kind of maturity that will enable them to become makers of disciples themselves. One who “makes” disciples is a mentor, a teacher, a trainer, and most of all, an example. He or she is one who can share the love of God and love of others in a way that brings their younger brother or sister into a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. That person is one who loves, shares and leads others, he or she is one who lets their guard down, who respects, who trusts, who sets ego aside for the benefit of others and who lives in such a level of transparency before both Man and God, that they inspire the legitimate trust of others; they are naked before God and in community with others.

To be honest with you, most of us haven’t quite attained the ideal we’ve been talking about here. Most of our churches are not doing as well as we’d like, many are shrinking, others may even be on life support. Many people have left “church” behind and are happy to share a litany of complaints about churches they used to attend. We can come up with a long list of possible causes for this sort of thing, yet most of our lists, while accurate, don’t really tell the story. They will speak of over reliance on traditions, forms and details, but these are only the symptoms; the causes of the problems run much deeper than that. If I might be so bold, the biggest problem in American (and I suspect other) churches today is that there are not enough people who are really naked before God, needless to say, there are even fewer who are “naked” in community. I’m not sure about you, but I think this is worth getting into next time.

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Judgment is at Hand

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Don Merritt

Hosea 5

“Hear this, you priests!
Pay attention, you Israelites!
Listen, royal house!
This judgment is against you:
You have been a snare at Mizpah,
a net spread out on Tabor.
The rebels are knee-deep in slaughter.
I will discipline all of them.
I know all about Ephraim;
Israel is not hidden from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
Israel is corrupt. (5:1-3)

God’s indictment of Israel is found in chapter 4, and His judgment is pronounced beginning in chapter 5. Notice that it begins with God judging the leaders of the people, for He is holding them responsible for leading the people into their state of general rebellion against Him. As we saw in the last chapter, there was violence abroad in the land, along with every sort of corruption both in the halls of power and in the lives of the people themselves: They have turned to idolatry, and away from God and His ways.

If you notice verse 3 there are two Hebrew parallelisms:

I know all about Ephraim;
Israel is not hidden from me.
Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;
Israel is corrupt.

You may recall other times when I have pointed this out− the two statements separated in English by a semicolon. Each side is parallel to the other, meaning that they mean the same thing. When you put it all together, it is clear that Israel is not hiding anything from God; He knows all of their secrets and has seen that Israel is utterly and completely corrupt.

As we continue on through verse 14 God makes it abundantly clear that He will act against them, for they are so utterly corrupted in their hearts that they will never turn back to Him in repentance unless He takes drastic action to get their attention: They will pay a heavy price for what they have done. That’s when we arrive at verse 15:

Then I will return to my lair
until they have borne their guilt
and seek my face—
in their misery
they will earnestly seek me.

The action that God will shortly take against Israel, and Judah also it would seem, is to get their attention, to break their habit of corruption and debauchery so that they, in their despair, will turn back to Him. Contrary to what many think, and others have even taught, God isn’t just getting even with them, He isn’t acting out of spite or just being nasty; He has a plan to actually save them as a people.

Sadly, I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people talk about God in the Old Testament as though He were some kind of a monster, just sitting around waiting for a chance to smite somebody, hoping that someone would mess up so that He could smash them. Yet as we have seen, and will continue to see, God was never like that. Instead He has been amazingly patient with the people, warning them, instructing them, working with them, forgiving them… and yet every time the people might repent for a while and then they would return to evil, getting worse and worse as they went until a time came when God recognized that if they didn’t get hurt, they would never stop.

15 years ago, I had 4 teenagers in the house. They were all good kids, but like all of us at that age, they thought that they pretty much had a handle on things, they wanted to try new things and were at a point in life where they had become, well let’s just say, a bit overconfident about their experience and knowledge of life in general. As a parent, I could see trouble ahead, and I warned, instructed and tried to protect them as much as possible, yet the day came when I knew that I would have to take a step back from time-to-time and let them learn certain lessons the hard way. I can only speak for myself of course, but for me, that was the most difficult part of parenting by far, because I knew that they would get hurt in the process, but such is the arrogance of youth that they actually thought they knew more about life than their parents. At one point I had a 15-year-old actually tell me that I didn’t know anything about how the world works!

What can you say to that kind of logic?

I managed not to laugh; that was a good first step I thought. I wanted to save her from herself, but I had to admit that there was only one way she was going to learn and as hard as it was to do, I let her get burned…

As I read these passages, I simply can’t help recalling these episodes from the past… and thinking to myself that being God can’t be as easy as it might seem at first.

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Photo of the Week: July 11, 2018

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Don Merritt

Here’s another photo contributed by our friend Bargo, taken in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Naked Before God: Trials and Tribulations

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Don Merritt

Praying in true humility can be difficult for us, particularly early in our Christian walk, yet for many of us, getting through the trials and tribulations of this life may be even more difficult. These are times of disappointments, problems, hardships, and sometimes these can lead to despair and desperation; we might even begin to wonder if God has forgotten all about us. Even worse, we might begin to think that God is exacting punishment upon us for something we have done or not done; oh yes, these are hard times indeed.

More than any other time in this life, times of hardship are times when we need to approach God’s presence holding nothing back, laying everything out in the open, times when we need to bare all before the God who sees all anyway. This is not only a time for praying in humility, it is also a time when we need to be honest about our doubts, frustrations, fears and disappointments, for when we are candid with God, He will usually be candid with us, if we are willing to listen to Him.

Have you ever read the Psalms?  How often David cried out to God; how often David asked Him pointed questions about his struggles and misery! Do we dare do the same?

Here’s something to think about: David was no more perfect than you or I, David experienced many hardships, some of which were caused by his own poor decisions, and some caused by human treachery and just plain evil; David questioned God and exhorted Him, yet through it all David kept his faith and in the end he was said to have been a man after God’s own heart.

Few of us experience more hardships than David did, and fewer still will make the same mistakes David made; why then are so few of us willing to be honest with God about our struggles and doubts?

God desires intimate relationship with us, very intimate. God knows our hearts and our thoughts; why not just be open and honest, rather than trying to act as though we had no doubts, no fears, no questions? You see, dear reader, this too is being naked before God. As for me, I have dealt with struggles both ways in my journey with Him; some I have held back, acting as though I was not affected, while other times I have taken my doubts, concerns and frustration to Him openly. In the former cases, I relied upon my own strength, which is considerable if I were to be honest with you. In the latter cases, I have received His strength in dealing with difficulty: Do you really need to ask which set of circumstances worked out the best?

Needless to say, through my own trials and tribulations I have learned that being completely open with God is the best policy, even (or especially) when it isn’t very comfortable.

I hope that you will share your thoughts with us on this issue!

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Back to the Beginning

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Don Merritt

Hosea 4

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites,
    because the Lord has a charge to bring
    against you who live in the land:
“There is no faithfulness, no love,
    no acknowledgment of God in the land. (4:1)

You may remember that earlier in this study I mentioned that prophetic writings have a tendency to repeat, and this is a case in point. In chapter 1 we had an overview of Hosea’s message to the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Then in chapter 2 we saw God’s indictment of Israel in more detail, then in chapter 3 we went back to the story of Hosea’s marriage from chapter 1 and saw its conclusion in a way that paralleled the last parts of both chapters 1 and 2.

As chapter 4 begins, we’re back to God’s indictment of Israel.

This is quite a stark contrast from they way that chapter 3 ended, with its messianic theme of redemption, yet, as I say, it is typical of the prophets. In this case, if you use the link to read these verses, you’ll discover that they are pretty much self-explanatory; there aren’t any tricky theological or interpretational elements to them or any difficult images to figure out. Reduced to their simplest form, the people have turned away from God to idolatry. Once they did that, they can justify almost anything because they live lives of drunkenness, greed and sensuality, resulting in lust, violence and gross injustice as each strives to gain everything he or she can to indulge themselves.

They live in a sort of constant stupor, they are not sensible in the slightest, and simply refuse to see the truth in front of them. God has tried to bring them back to sensibility, but they simply do not desire to hear from Him, or to hear of anything that will break the spell they are under. Even the priests have given themselves over to debauchery and greed; their situation is hopeless.

What will God do about this? What is the Plan?

That will begin to unfold in chapter 5- see you next time!

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Naked Before God: Praying in Humility

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Don Merritt

As you may recall when I last posted on being naked before God, I was giving the first practical suggestion: Recovering the wonder of being in His presence.

I’m sure that some of you might have thought it a bit strange to combine practicality and childlike wonder together as a “step one”, and if you reacted along those lines, I can hardly blame you, for it is counter-intuitive.

But then, the things of God usually are…

Believe it or not, there is actually a rationale for this “wonder” business, for you see, when we find ourselves in wonder and awe at God’s awesome Creation, or at being in His presence, our walls, barriers and defenses start to crumble; we stop holding back and begin to give it all up to Him.

We are never “naked” if we are hiding behind a barrier of some sort.

Clearly, step one is to recover that sense of wonder and awe before God!

Step two is to pray with humility.

Humility hides nothing, it holds nothing back, and it gives all to God with total honesty and a lack of shame, guilt or self. Humility is submission to God, His ways, plans and will; it is the recognition that He is God and we are not. Humility has no agenda. To put it another way, being ‘naked’ is nothing if not humbling.

Can you see why that childlike awe and wonder is so important? True humility isn’t something that comes naturally (in earthly terms) to most of us; we have walls and barriers we aren’t even aware of in most cases, for humility is far too intimate, and those defenses become an impediment to our relationships, in this case, our relationship with God, and they need to come down.

So, with all of that said, what does praying in humility look like?

The disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, and in His response, He gave them a wonderful example which we often call the Lord’s Prayer (Matt. 6:9-13; Luke 11:2-4). There are differing teachings about this prayer, some believe it was intended to be recited, others teach that it is more of a template; I join with the latter thinking, while acknowledging that there is nothing wrong with reciting it. As a model for prayer, there are a few very fascinating things contained in it:

In Matthew 6:9-10, that God’s greatness and glory are acknowledged first, followed by His Kingdom, which is always His top priority, followed by the request that His will should be done on earth “as it is in Heaven”, where His will is the only will that is done. Think about it: Jesus taught that first and foremost we should pray that the Kingdom that He was proclaiming should come, and that God’s will would be the only will done on earth, just like it is in heaven.

There’s no room for my will; there’s no place for my latest “wish list”, for this is praying in humble submission to God, not a prayer advancing my own agenda.

In verse 11, we acknowledge that it is God who supplies our physical needs, and in verse 12, we ask to be forgiven our sins to the extent that we forgive the sins of others against us; another act of humble submission. Finally, we pray for God’s deliverance from evil, and if you think about it, since this is preceded by a big dose of humble submission to God, we are really saying in this that we are not relying on ourselves in anything; not on our own cleverness, not on our own strength, but instead are giving everything up to God and placing our complete trust in His provision for everything.

This, dear friends, is being naked before God.

Having mentioned this, I should point out that what I have just said about the Lord’s Prayer is a thumbnail; I have written on it in much greater depth more than once on this blog in the past; right now, I simply want us to see what praying in real humility looks like. Many are there and have been for a long time; others… not so much. My main thought and purpose here is this: No matter how mature we are, or think we are, we can always benefit from a periodic look in the mirror to ensure that we are still on track. Perhaps this might be a good time for some reflection.

My plan is to post again on this subject tomorrow with another suggestion for you to consider; see you then!

 

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A Chance for Reconciliation

Posted on July 10, 2018 by Don Merritt

The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.”

Hosea 3:1

Chapter two ended with a ray of hope that a better day would come for adulterous Israel. The Nation (wife) had turned away from God (husband) and had worshipped other gods (had other men).  As a consequence, for continuing in this pattern of unfaithfulness to its relationship with God, Israel would be conquered and taken into captivity by a foreign power, in this case, the Assyrian Empire. Even so, a better day would come.

In chapter 3, Hosea’s marriage to Gomer is used as the example to illustrate the situation Israel was facing. God tells Hosea to find his adulterous wife in her degradation and show his love for her, in spite of everything that has happened.

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you.” (3:2-3)

Hosea tells us that he bought his wife back, which is to say that he “redeemed” her (as Jesus would redeem all Mankind), for about 30 shekels, half silver and about half barley. Then he takes her home and tells her that she must abstain from sexual intimacy with anyone (representing idolatry) for “many days”, and that he too will abstain.

For the Israelites will live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred stones, without ephod or household gods. (3:4)

Gomer’s complete abstinence represents Israel’s captivity and its aftermath, in which she has been cut off from everything that is holy, not to mention God’s love and grace.

Afterward the Israelites will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the Lord and to his blessings in the last days. (3:5)

It’s important that we remember that Hosea was a prophet to the Northern Kingdom, Israel, and that when their remnant was able to return, they were still estranged from Judah, the Southern Kingdom, for they were the Samaritans, and as we know, the Samaritans were cut off from the worship of God at the rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem, anathema to the Jews. Yet when Messiah came, His offer of grace though faith was open for the Samaritans, and God’s plan for then was that through their hardships and trials, that they would finally come to repent of their evil ways and accept His forgiveness and grace through Christ. For in that day, all would be reconciled through Christ, both Jew and Samaritan, and both Jew and Gentile, male and female, slave and free

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TLP Living: July 9, 2018

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Don Merritt

Attitude is a Powerful Thing

Years ago, I had a management job in a company that had some issues.  There were things about the company that I didn’t much like, and things that were a lot of fun, so I suppose that like most jobs there were ups and downs.  One of the things that I didn’t much care for was that the highest level of management had a way of keeping people on edge, which quite frankly made my job a lot more difficult than it needed to be.  The man who started the company years before was a mixed bag, one might say, in that he was a really great guy when you got to know him, but a jerk until you did.  He seemed to love stirring the pot!

He did this by scaring people; that seemed to be almost a pastime for him.  He liked to yell and scream and intimidate, when all that was really necessary was for someone to explain something, and the result was that he was generally feared and his presence in the office was dreaded by most people who worked there; turnover was high as you might expect.

A person would get the idea that the “Big Guy” had noticed a mistake on their part, and paranoia would set in.  They would expect trouble, and sooner or later they would find it.  So many times, people would come to me and say that they were sure they were going to be fired for something because Mr. Big was ‘after’ them.  I knew when Mr. Big was unhappy with someone, and most of the time the people who came to me weren’t even on his radar, yet they were certain that they were going to be fired, and they began to act badly at work.

This kind of thing was so frustrating for me because no matter what I said or did, the people believed they were going to be fired and their attitudes would be in the dumpster, which altered their behavior and their work and eventually they would be fired.  Their belief became a self-fulfilling prophecy.  It was entirely unnecessary.

Now there are certainly lessons for managers here; don’t act like a jerk just because you can.  There is a larger lesson for the rest of us: Watch out what you let yourself believe, for your beliefs will shape your attitude, your attitude will shape your behavior, and your behavior will cause a lie to come to pass.

I wonder how many believers in Christ allow a lie to creep into their minds and spiral down this cliff.  Let’s say they allow themselves to think that nobody likes them, and then the spiral begins and before long they are just too difficult to be around.  How many allow a lie to creep into to their thinking like, say… “I don’t think I’m really saved.”

I’ve seen people turn their backs on Jesus because of this one; maybe you have too.

This principle applies to so many thoughts and attitudes that originated with a little lie…  Faith destroyed, marriages destroyed, relationships broken; how often did it all start with a lie?

The New Testament teaches us to hold fast to the truth; to hold fast to our faith in Jesus Christ no matter what, in fact the whole book of Hebrews is written on this theme.

Yet we don’t always listen, for the little lie in the back of our minds seems more attractive, or more real than the reality right in front of our faces.

How tragic is that?  What needless misery…

It might interest you to know that Mr. Big was aware that people feared him, and he didn’t like it.  One day when we were alone and I was arguing with him about something or other, he asked me why I could talk to him “like a man” and everyone else was afraid of him.  I told him the truth, that I did not depend upon him for my job.  He seemed irritated by that, and in a rough tone of voice asked me how that could be.  My reply was that I didn’t depend on him because I believed that Jesus Christ was the source of my living and that if one job didn’t work out, there would be another one for me. Can you guess what Mr. Big (tough guy) said to that?

He said that he wished everyone else saw it that way because all he ever wanted was for them to just talk to him like I did…

Go figure?

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