Holding this mic, it is easy to lose myself in the diatribe of whittling words, diminishing, shaping, dividing all that I see. The fear that leads such action has born allegiance to acrimony, the spoil of men who would be king but lack to charm, power or presence. What man shapes my thinking, well none but the God above? So in my actions measure, treasure and pleasure ought find itself ample to reflect the Glory that such relationship brings to the words of man. Which man am I to be driven by the spiritual things of mercy and grace that this pen within my grasp should record not insecurity but the tremendous fealty, admiration and defensive nature within my chest for all men?
This is not time for a spirit of conquest in hate. By any measure, that man or woman is easily found and purchased for the price of allowing them mantle from which to preach that dividing rhetoric. What is left in the wake of such mannerisms but destructive evidence of said nature? What is built upon the foundations lain? What pleasant odor emanates from the gardens of lilac they’ve planted in the fields of man’s sustainable provision? If I were such a man to talk you down from the perches you’ve erected, it would be only to consume you in the masterful mannerism of making you my prey. Which man believes in kill or be killed, let that man stand before God’s throne on that great day and give recount of his displeasure and animalistic rage. Which man stands and looks at his own position within the evolved component that man claims to have become and deems himself worthy of determining the end of any specie? No, there are greater hands at work that the survival of the fittest mentality displayed so handsomely for the cover of odd magazine. For in such there is no loving control guiding forgiveness of youth and apprehensive upbringing.
And if man be born or become by time or the times in which he discovers himself risen, what then do these time’s demand? Is this time for reasoned cruelty. Certainly men are teetering upon the brink of their own random and easily prompted destruction. Is it the call of man within this timeline to encourage such timely assistance? Is there division by which there is realistic determination of judgment regarding one’s own position in cast and culture to separate you from such masse? Has life’s provision better equipped you to face the time’s approaching questions? Is that the question of our time? Who shall be left to face the undetermined future and who should be helped to early grave? Who wants part of such argument for or against? And is that the defining componentry of man’s worth or wisdom is how to be in or out of this divisive determination? Do we even now see such men describing their internal mercy as being that which desires them to assist the less capable to find expiration as if such idea finds any equation with the merciful? Are the noblest few to look upon the less fortunate with plentiful disregard, believing themselves the appropriators of worthiness?
Am I that man who quests to fight the disrighteous dream of appropriating men? Does their cruelty carry such disappeal that it rubs askance my reason or sensibility? Do I find it wretched that men could make decision in viewing themselves greater or lesser than any man created by God’s Mighty Choice? No this mic, this moment is not meant for destruction or diminution but for regard of greater things than man. This is the time that calls for all to face our impermanence together. If mortality be our shared objective then what may be made of it collectively that each cannot individually resolve? Are we meat for others founding, the fodder or kindling for their approbation or enriching regard? Do I care what befalls other men, such that I take an active role in promoting the common good of all? Or shall they find no friend in me, seeking only my own devices, my own quest for a hand up to be found only in the groups of aspiration?
Is this an experiment in giving people the opportunity and watching them arise to the task with that appropriate and necessary elevation? Or is this a membership given only to the worthy, kept away from the undeserving for they’ve not pigment, speech or adequate blood of entry? Do the lowly get any decision in our worldly regard or simply by the provision of their poverty is their vote made nil? Yes, the times call for these questions answered, but none would ask for it defines their filthy insides. What pigment is necessary for inclusion well it most certainly should not be the festering blackness within the heart of the wicked who propose the demise of God’s favored. Am I that man to believe myself adequate in stature or station to determine before God which of His Created and beloved men or women are inadequate by measure? Oh, pray don’t let your argument dispose to contestation with the immortal Hand of God? I would have you reason in the spiritualist avenue of men’s apprehension, not be cut to quick by God’s rapier Word. For what does God know of our human folly or madness? What does Sovereignty share with those carrying the weight of the impoverished? That same argument, what has God to do with the likes of men?
Provision no less. The gift of Life no more. For which of us adores a certain child, niece or nephew who has not been given each by the hand of God’s benevolence? Did you create your wife? Did you give her affluence, perhaps? Did you give her worthy blood or bold station from whence to preach the inadequacy of common man? Is her intelligence quotient and her academic upbringing the products of your anticipation or rather those random and loving gifts given by the Hand of God? What then are your own treasures but blessings of Almighty? Did you not pray for the outcome of each battle, contest or mission? From whom did you expect good fortune? Oh, now I see the problem of your ill reasoned approach in lacking love for men of common nature. You prayed to those who would de-throne Almighty God, seeking stature here as opposed to hereafter. That explains the blackened heart. You would have me call you god that you might be the one worthy of making man’s decision for him. Well, God Almighty, knows your breast and your quest to dispense shame upon those whom He bestows loving grace and mercy. He is alive and has shared in our pain of mortality, having come lived and died upon the Cross that we might be set free from the prison your liege would have us enter. This man knows from where each of His blessings flow. If turning astray that provision is requirement for inclusion in your idea of immortality, then frankly it shall by nature be short lived for it lack within its planning a misconception. That misaligned thinking that somehow there is immortality outside the hand of God. Who pray tell has fed such folly?
Which man are you or perhaps am I? What man does this time call upon you to become? Are you by nature the destroyer, seeing it easy to bring ruin to all in your sphere? Are you frightened beyond performance, determining a small measure of comfort within your shell or avatar? Are you willing without direction having never been tested, taught or measured? Are you the Lord of all you’ve taken, seeing promise in the depopulation of your planet by lesser men? Do you feel something is owed you only for the line’s standing? Which man has the time chosen that you should become? Oh, you say that you are not simply sculpture that the clock has created and that you will act within your own direction regardless of era or circumstance? Bravo, I say, though I think you’ll find out somewhere along the road that there is a certain inescapable reality of the moment that will greet you. Are you the hero of this story or perhaps of someone else’s version? What are you building or taking away? What are you fighting, folding or avoiding in this ju jitsu match of life in America’s mad moment? What is your fellow man to you. Brother, nuisance, challenge, Friend or food for your conquests?
The joy of this moment is that if you fail to decide those definitions and decisions will certainly be self-proclaimed absent your investment or control. For these are times that define men not vise versa. Which man do you say that you will be? For we are becoming someone. Who is it that you want to be and what impact does God’s opinion have upon that outcome?