Resistance is... good?


Ok.. so.. why Borg?  Why us?  Who are we?  or more correctly.. who is the
"we" that are Borg?

That might sound a little assimilatory to you.. I mean.. talking about this
"We" who are Borg.. It's only sci-fi.. right?  Unfortunately not.  And a lot
of people are going to be rather put out by what I'm gonna write here... all
because, deep down, they'll know it's right on.. and exposing their own lack
of love and lack of morality.  Maybe one of those people will be you?

A loooooooooooooong time ago.. I was born (back when you really paid rocks
and clams for push-powered cars.  Yes.. Fred Flintstone lived a couple
streets over.  Sometimes he'd get into fights with my pet venus dino-trap.)..
and I learned to get along in reality... but not in reality.  I learned that
the world was a painful place.. where people enjoyed hurting one another..
even those of their own families.. all in fun.  I also learned that there was
this body of water.. that was always nearby.. ready for anyone to swim in...
a big sea by the name of Fanta.  Yup.. FantaSea.  I enjoyed swimming in it
all the time... it was a great way out of all the pain I was getting from
Realeh Tea.  Where else could you control girls and make them like you by
merely snapping your fingers... or turn into someone invisible and go spy on
anyone you felt like.. or become any animal you chose... just for fun?  It
was a lot of fun... a lot better than Realeh Tea.
Realeh Tea tasted bitter... very bitter.  It needed sweetening at every
taste... And you *had* to drink it.  It was a requirement.. a mandate.. a
command from all who "knew better".. that you *had* to have Realeh Tea every
day and every night.  Often it made you sick to your stomach.  Often it just
made you sick of *it*.... of its mundane.. boring.. and murky flavors.  But
you still had to drink it.  Those who gave it up didn't last long.  Those who
refused to drink it either got carted off to The White Buiìding of No
Return.. or told you were genius.. and got carted there only later when they
decided you weren't one.
But they knew.  They always knew.  They knew if you were good.. bad.. right..
wrong.. up.. down.. left.. right.. all because they were they.  They never
made mistakes.  They held onto their they-ness... for after all.. they *were*
they.  The problem was.. they also, behind people's backs, and in closed
seances.. welcomed the fruits of drinking the waters of the Fanta Sea.  They
couldn't let anyone know.... but they still did it.  They still held tight to
all the days swimming in it as children.  They were too big to be caught
swimming.. so they had men in big tanker trucks come out.. say they were
disposing of the FantaSea in a safe place.. and suck up gallon after gallon
of the Fanta Sea... only to deliver it in bottles to all of they.. for
consumption.. and not just swimming in.

So why is this so weird?  Probably cuz it's all true.  Children in western
society especially are born and weaned on huge doses of fantasy.  We call it
movies, TV, books, you name it... but it's almost all a big bunch of fantasy.
A bunch of "fun" fantasy that hurts no one.  Or does it?

That's the thing... See... For thousands of years.. people have wanted a
place of safety.. of security.. of life-untrammled by pain and sorrow... and
for many years, Western Society has tried to produce it.  And many think it
achieved just such a nirvana.... where "Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and
Catholics".. all get along.  There's one little problem with this idea -- the
notion that, in order for people to truly get along.. people have to truly
agree about truth.  This doesn't mean that people all have to enjoy the same
flavors of ice cream.. or same foods.. as everyone else.... but it *does*
mean that people *MUST* hold onto factuality.. to hold to real truth *as*
true -- Either that, or throw truth out the window.  And that's what we, here
in the U.S., have done in the extreme.

We have all held in the deepest facets of our hearts.. a need to be loved..
to be cared for.. a need to feel included.  Man if I don't know that one...
as being a brain who was constantly ostracized.. and had no real friends.
But this wasn't because I was a *bad* person... it was merely because I was
"different" than others.  And those differences made me "stand out".  So
basically.. you have two choices -- either you accept people, regardless of
their differences.. or you only accept those whom are like you.  Yet each of
these decisions can also be taken too far -- by daring to accept, as merely
"diverse", choices of lifestyle that are truly harmful to society, and to
those who choose to adhere to such lifestyles.  Of course.. we don't like
coming to grips with this possibility, because it means that for something
*to* be harmful, we need some means of judging whether it truly *is* harmful.
And unless there's a perfect ruler that can always tell us, we will make
mistakes, and condemn well-doing and praise wrong-doing or harmfulness.  The
other option is to accept all who are merely "like you".. or "like those in
power".  The trouble with this, is that many times those who come into power
(whether on a school playground or in a nation) aren't all that good,
themselves.. and end up heaping unto themselves people who merely accept
their versions of "status quo".. rather than stand up for what truly is good.

So.. is there a mandate?  is there an actual "good" thing that you can do for
anyone that will make them *become* a good standing member of society?  Is
there a way for us all to live together, without having to die every day in
order to simply make ends meet?  This is, unfortunately, a no.  Yes, people
can try to hold tight to a humanly devised standard of "good and bad".. but
in the end.. we all *test* those standards... and many people just cannot see
any reason to follow a standard that humans, like themselves.. no better/no
worse, have somehow "devised" and "stated to be good".  And ya know what?
That's not by any means the worst way to think.  Cuz mankind *is* equal.. All
people are not meant to be merely subjugated under some superior few or one..
who move the strings of judgement.. and decide of their own free will who
they want to bless and who to curse.  The *ONLY* way to find perfect
happiness in our world is to come to a consensus of what is truly
worthwhile.. and what needs to be done away with.  But thanks to this "gene"
as I'll call it.. a "superiority gene".. (which is no real gene, but
nonetheless evident in all of humanity), people all fight to have their own
desires.. their own ways.. their own mandates lifted up as "law".. for
*then*, these mandate-givers become one thing they were never meant to be --
God.

That's right.. people who attempt to write up laws in our world.. who attempt
to fight for "good" and "truth".. by making up their own standards out of
their own minds.. are actually exalting themselves to the status of "God"..
as only God can see perfectly what is a right act and what is an evil one.
Only God can truly lead us perfectly.  God originally stationed Himself as
our overseer.. but not just overseer... as Father.. but more than Father.. as
Creator.. as Designer.. and.. as Delimiter.. as the One who decides where
right ends and wrong begins.  But we all prefer to do it all ourselves...
why?  cuz we all our naturally rebellious against Him.. we all have this
"superiority gene" in us that makes us want to rule over our own lives,
rather than let Him rule.. that makes us want to do things our own way,
rather than His... that pulls at us every second of the day... to make our
own decisions.. not only in good contexts.. but within the fabric of *all* of
reality.. with *anything* being a *valid* choice.. -- i.e. no action
inherently "evil" or "immoral".  That's what happens when you remove God's
being our standard... of His Word (Jesus) being our strong tower of truth
that we can find peace in.. as we play within the boundaries of what is good
and pure.

Unfortunately, many people, calling themselves "Inspired" or "Led" or
"Messiahs".. have all tried (many touting Jesus' name) to bring order to the
chaos of life.  But, due to their own desires and refusal of God's ultimate
leadership of their lives.. and due to the pressures exerted upon them by
their worldly leaders and peers of this life, these so-called "inspired
gurus" have so many times told us "such-and-such" is how God wants you to
live.. when in fact.. they are *dead* wrong.  They have spent little depth of
heart time (though perhaps many years of scholarly study) trying to truly
seek God.. and then when they do find Him and His truth, they leave out the
parts they don't like.. (often cuz they're too difficult to implement, or
refuse to let them remain at the top of the heap).  These money-grubbing,
sweaty-palmed, brimstone preachers enjoy controlling their flocks with
"powerful" (or rather emotionally compulsive) words.. that stir up people's
pride (and their own) and make them think that God is merely their "desk
clerk" in the sky.. who works for them... and not the other way around.
Thus.. so many "unGodly" preachers have grown up and learned they could get
away with this kind of treatment of their congregations.. because we all are
refusing to get to know God, ourselves -- we all end up deferring to those in
charge.. hoping to ride into Heaven on their coat-tails.  But if there's one
thing I've learned.... it's that the only two people who can get you to
Heaven are God *and* you.  And they are also the only two who can get you out
of Heaven.  Life with God is no cruise-ship with tons of people all floating
their lazy selves as God drives the boat through calm seas... Life with God
is a two-man rowboat... with you at the oars, Jesus at the helm, the Holy
Spirit fueling you, and God leading you home.  If you choose to try and make
it to Heaven without truly *dying* and doing your own share of "bearing
*your* cross".. then you will find the next life surprisingly dissatisfying..
(ok.. it'll be torture).

So what's my point?  My point is that our world.. our nation especially.. has
become so fat that we can't even walk anymore.  We fill ourselves with
fantasy, pleasure, fun.. you name it.. all without thinking about the
extremely adverse affects that those "desserts" have on us.  True life is not
meant to be lived for fun.. but for the good of all involved -- and not just
for the good of those in our camp.  Jesus would've died for EVEN ONE of us..
even if that one was as helpful as John the Baptist.. or as murderous as Saul
(who later became Paul and wrote so much of the Bible).  Jesus never told us
to pitch our tent and just enjoy this life.  That was never His intention.
His desire is for us to live for Him.. not for fun.. not for pleasure.. not
for enjoyment.. but for Him.  If we *do* live for Him.. He promises us real
joy and real peace.. as not only a side-benefit.. but a *REAL* reward.. for
all who give Him His proper Mastership of their lives.  Of course.. He also
promised us persecutions.. something which we attack, rather than love.

Yes.. attack.  Jesus told us in Matthew 5:38-48 that the old law of merely
loving your neighbor and hating your enemy wasn't good enough anymore...
that, now, with this New Covenant agreement that God was making with mankind,
it was the duty of all who believed in Jesus to no longer hate their enemies,
but *LOVE* them!  It is now the duty of all of mankind to lay down any
"rights" they may think they have (though in fact, we have no rights.. we
merely have responsibilities unto God to live as He desires -- and if all did
so, nobody would get hurt)... and live to help people learn of His love, joy,
peace, and desire to know them intimately.. within... no matter *HOW* much
they hurt us.  Jesus suffered a brutal death.  He promised that we would be
called Beelzebub more than He was!!  -- If we truly followed Him that is.
But people these days have abandoned God.. and chosen to enjoy "fun" as their
god.. and much of this includes 'fantasy'.  And with all the doses of fantasy
we imbibe.. we end up being totally confused as to how to interrelate in a
*REAL* world.. where pain is a *FACT OF LIFE*.. and escaping life just isn't
an option.

The AWESOME News is..?  God is right here.. with you.. now.. reading this
with you.  He knows your pain.. your troubles.. your doubts.. your fears.. He
knows how much you want His love and His peace inside... but He also knows
how much you've been holding onto things in this life... all because they
make you feel good inside... whether fantasy, fun, or what have you.  He
knows that the only way for you to enjoy the life He has for you is to
abandon what you've relied on, and trust in Him.. to simply lean back into
His waiting arms.. and let Him know you're sorry for trying to do it your own
way.. and that you want to live His way from now on.  This is what Jesus came
to bring us.. not only to separate us from the curse that the law and our own
sin brings upon our hearts.. but to literally do "supernatural surgerly" on
your heart.. and take out that "superiority gene".. and put in a "humility
gene".. one that will trust that God will take care of you.. as long as you
keep loving Him.  Yes.. God's love isn't unconditional, in that.. He won't
keep loving you if you refuse to love Him for long enough.  If you keep
running away, and refuse to let Him be God... He will first take His hand off
of you somewhat.. and let you know more pain.. but if you still refuse..
He'll have the enemy send legions and squadrons upon you.. all to show you
what happens when you're away from God's love.. and when you refuse to
acknowledge God's loving hand *as* truly loving.  And if you keep this up..
you will eventually die.. and end up in hell.. not cuz you had no chance..
but cuz you had years upon years of chances to listen to God... but you gave
up and refused.

This is what's happening to our country.  We claim to be Christian.. we claim
to be loving.. we claim to be "God's Country"... even our nation has "In God
We Trust" on every denomination of currency.. right?  But do we?  NO!  And
God is going to keep lifting His hands.. and letting us suffer, because not
only are we not His country, but we are endorsing idolatry, paganism, and
such.. even in our own military.. and killing people (but labelling it mere
collateral damage).. both with guns and with words.  We as a country have
misplaced our loyalties.  We all want our own lives to be rewarding.. we all
want to have a peaceful existence.. but we ignore Jesus' call.. when He says,
"He who is not with Me is against Me, and He who does not gather with Me,
scatters abroad."  We think we're all simply enjoying the blessings He's
pouring on us.. and that we're all in His good graces.. but in fact.. we are
merely touting our own last flag.. as it burns to a crisp.. and we say,
"Well.. I believe that wasn't our last flag".. since you can believe anything
and it's true (in the presence of no set standard of truth).  We refuse to go
out loving those who most need us... We simply eek out a living for our
families.. and hope that God is blessing our time at church... and we wonder
why we hear so little of Him.  Perhaps this is because we are too busy to
truly give Him more than a few minutes a day.

David Meece said it well when He said, "There is no such thing as a part-time
Christian... you either are one or you aren't one... and there's nothing in
the middle."  And tons of people in our lives.. all around us.. are dying..
cuz they have been hurt by many churches.. parents.. teachers.. siblings..
you name it.. all leading them with one, simple, message, "Resistance is
futile... you *will* be assimilated."  We all are ignoring all the huge
battle all around us.. for every soul on the planet.  Do we care??? Hardly!!
But what are we to do?

Truth be told.. God has your answer.. He has mine.. and He has everyone's.
He's the only one who can get us where we need to go... and He doesn't want
us making enemies of our own doing along the way.  It is our job to love
**EVERYONE**.. not merely those who we enjoy having around.  It is our job to
*REPROVE* those who aren't listening to God.. and point out their need to
give Him real place in their lives and hearts... which begins at accepting
that Jesus is who He claimed to be... God's only perfect Son... and that
Jesus not only paid the restoration price for us, but actually gives us a
totally new personhood in Him.. as we are changed into someone totally new.
Yet it is up to us to continue in that, once it's started.  Thinking that you
are guaranteed Heaven by your faith-confession, apart from real living like
you believe it, is dead faith.. and will not save anyone.

You may hate me.. I don't hate you.  You may not enjoy this.. but that
doesn't mean it's not true.  You may want to hurt me.. but.. ask yourself...
why?