Seeing as God sees...the foundation of right ordered insight

In 1989 I was shopping for a car. I found this car that was the same model as my dream car. The possibility of owningthat car was incredible to me at the time. It was a used model, but I didn't mind. I had eyed that model when it was new. What was interesting in this story was the sales guy's pitch.
The guy brought up detailed answers for questions I didn't ask. I later discovered that all of the points brought up the sales guy were actually just the opposite of what he said.
The guy lied. He could have just told me the straight scoop and I would have probably asked for some discounts or maybe just kept looking. But the lie covered over defects, knowing the truth so that he could get what he wanted. He valued the money and or position on the sales team more than his own integrity. I learned something from that moment.
In talking with people, be keen to where the other person takes the conversation and why they are focusing on a particular detail. The bible says that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The tongue is like a ready pen writing from the thoughts of the heart.The pure of heart are wise as serpents and harmless as doves. From the good in a heart there is wholesome speech that flows. The doubleminded will say one thing, while knowing that what is being said is not the exact truth. A friend once told me that if you will lie to yourself then you will lie to anyone. Lying to self is convincing one's self of a reality separated from what is real, true or actual. Justifying actions while fully aware of the real intentions of the heart.
In studying psychology and interpersonal communications, the clues to a fabricated story is the amount of unsolicited details while skirting details in other areas. I noticed all of that behavior with this guy as I went over what happened a week after the sale.That sales guy knew exactly that what he was saying wasn't true. In an attempt to deflect attention to another area, he told me what he wanted me to hear and think. I didn't know any better to question it at the time. I mean, here's this guy talking to me, representing a large company, has all of the trappings of credibility, why wouldn't I believe him? He had trappings of all that was wholesome, good and trustworthy counting on such things to put to rest unsettled questioning. It did, at least for me at the time.
Wow, when I discovered that this guy was just a bold faced liar, I realized that it was too late for me to do anything about it. I was stuck with my decision because I believed the guys lies. I asked God to help me have wisdom and knowledge about such things in the future. I have had many opportunities to observe the same behavior since 1989. On every occasion the pattern is recognizable. The real deal is what to do about a situation like this encounter. A funny thing happened to me. I began to see people from God's right ordered perspective like I never had done before. Even though it would become obvious at least to me that a person isn't truthful, I would see them the way that God sees them. I learned that a person's lie stays the hand of God's opportunity but does not quench His desire and passion to be close to His treasure. His treasure is people.We can never see God's treasure with eyes outside of God's nature. This is how we know that we are partakers of his nature, if we do what He said. He said to love others like we love our self and have no other thing greater than our passion for God. Only those who would lie to themself would live any other way.

Friend if for some reason you discover that you habitually, intentionally, willfully plot ways to get your way by covering with lies, half truths or wrong and impure actions, there is hope that you can get back to reality and make life more simple. If you confess it, forsake it in the name of Jesus, God says that He will not hold it against you. Then take it one more step, make it right with those that you wronged. Tell the truth, even if it costs you. To gain the world is not worth loosing your soul and the value of who you are and were made to be in this present world.King Saul had the problem of covering his own sin, justifying his actions and making excuses for himself. He had a choice. You have a choice friend. Saul's end doesn't have to be your end.

Choose today. Would you do that? Like the father standing watch for the son who went his own way, God has promised to be right there at that moment. A life of proper perspective that brings rightly ordered faith expressed as genuine love for people and especially for those in the family of God.
Believing and speaking what is good of other people and notallowing haughtiness, pride, self willed ambitions or exclusions to separate you from the body of Christ worldwide.God knows you, knows the good, the bad and the ugly and yet still loves you. Your choice determines God's opportunity in your life and your opportunity in God's family here on the earth. You can pull out of the way of life that leads to all that is short term, lacks real value, meaning or long term purpose. Its your life and your choice, friend.

I trust that you will make the right choice. If so, get ready for real vision, purpose and destiny that far exceeds the most grand idea imaginable.
Hope this blesses you friend.
In Christ,
Brother Ben

Knowledge and Insight Without Love

1 Corinthians 8:1-"...knowledge puffs up, love builds up"
The pursuit of knowledge and insight, while good and noble, are destructive if the path is without God's kind of love.Knowledge makes one haughty, arrogant, accusatory, vile, paranoid and lends to vain imaginations and evil thoughts about other people, looking down on people as inferior. Knowledge alone destroys. Paul was saying here the pursuit of knowledge apart from love is insight without perspective.Like a loaded gun shot aimlessly, so is knowledge and insight obtained with any root but God's kind of love.You see Jesus said in Matthew 6:33 for us to 'seek first the Kingdom of God (God's will and purpose) and His righteousness (right order, right perspective) and all of these things will be added'. Knowledge and insight are things.Jesus didn't say seek things. He said seek Him and the things will be added BY HIM! Why, because through Him all things arrive, are viewed, are used according to His will and purpose, right order and right perspective, according to HIS KINGDOM...not our thought, nor our vision, nor our feelings or vain view of life. His way, not our way. Our way leads to mistrusting people, paranoia, fear, isolation, vain imaginations, pride, haughtiness, arrogance, ambition, greed and every evil work. Knowledge alone only destroys. Paul was not talking to those who did not know a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, he was talking to christians, to church leaders, to us all.

I had a friend who got caught up in the pursuit of insight outside of God's kind of love. Suddenly my friend found that they were not seeing the people, the friends and loved ones like God sees them. They began to isolate themself and destroy relationships in their life all in the name of pursuit of knowledge and insight. Their pursuit without love brought only more trouble.

You see God's kind of love does not segment or isolate. God's kind of love in us is expressed because of our faith (which pleases God) and is only expressed as truthful, genuine love for people (God's priority, God's treasure) and especially for those in the family of God.
John said that if you don't love, unconditionally like God loves, those that you see, then how can you love God who don't see with natural eyes. You see, wisdom is only the principle thing when it follows the first commandment and Jesus instruction to us. There will be no other God (or pursuit) other than God, seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness. We call it living life in perspective. Our movement of pursuit has to flow with first thought and first fruit through that perspective. God's priority is 'for God so loved the World'. He gave it all. God loves people. People are His treasure. This is why John ties our love for people with our love for God. Faith is only expressed as God nature expressed. God is love. You know that your faith is living and alive when you are operating in God's definition of love, not a man's definition of love.Man's definition of love is manipulative, exclusionary, controlling, isolating leading to pride, destroyed relationships, evil thinking, evil speaking and evil acting. Man's kind of love is from a corrupt nature and can only breed corruption because of the seed from which it exists.Friend, if you find yourself in a place where either people are standing back from you, there is a reason. A life operated without love is a life with no orientation or right order. Perspective only comes from a first fruit relationship with God which leads to vision, purpose and destiny all in the context of God's kind of love. Faith can only be expressed through us when we demonstrate genuine love for people and especially for those in the family of God.Knowledge and insight without love boils down to foolishness because it is not obtain in God's right order.Such things may have some benefit for the moment, but have no impact in eternity.

Proverbs 24:4 can only be a reality in this life when obtained through proper perspective. Vision cannot happen without proper perspective. Nothing that we can carry to heaven and present to the Lord Jesus Christ happens without proper perspective which leads to expression of truthful, genuine love for all people and especially for those in the family of God already!

Here's to your life of proper perspective leading to genuine love for all people of which you will need precious and pleasant riches.

Love ya!
In Christ,
Brother Ben