Rev. Dustin ParkerTheology and Attitude, Part 2
I know that everyone is shocked by the fact that I am actually coming back to a topic to do a second part. Thanks.
In the first, I discussed briefly that if a man's theology is good, I may not actually have alot to complain about as far as his attitude is concerned. I am going to put it out there that I was both right and wrong. Aside from this being evidence that men CAN multi-task (in my case I learned from my mother) I believe it actually leaves alot to be said, and most of it I didn't say just yet.
A good attitude has a worth beyond any kind of measure. The ability to love people, even when they are jerks, to do what good you can when it hurts, to really, really like people, even when you KNOW them more than what you want to know them, is an attitude which is at the centre of what I believe. It is 1Corinthians13 (go look it up), that I could do anything, say anything, be anything to everyone, but if I didn't actually love them then none of it was worthwhile. It is in fact, far beyond that. It is hypocritical.
But if a man loves people and does nothing with it, where does he stand? Well, pretty much in the same place. That a man loves other men, a woman, his family, his country, his God and does nothing, who is he? At best, he is lazy and insincere. At worst, he is a hypocrite. His attitude might be perfect, but unless his walk matches his talk, then what he has in his heart is like a talent that has been buried.
Please do not think that I am approaching either of these two extremes while being the perfect guy in the middle. I assure you now, I am both of those men. I am the one that does without loving and the man that loves without doing.
Without some kind of poetry in his heart, a man has nothing great to move him. Without some kind of good deed in his life, he has no poetry to write. Each goes with the other. Our love is grown by our doing, and the more we love, the more we will find ourselves doing.
JZ
In the first, I discussed briefly that if a man's theology is good, I may not actually have alot to complain about as far as his attitude is concerned. I am going to put it out there that I was both right and wrong. Aside from this being evidence that men CAN multi-task (in my case I learned from my mother) I believe it actually leaves alot to be said, and most of it I didn't say just yet.
A good attitude has a worth beyond any kind of measure. The ability to love people, even when they are jerks, to do what good you can when it hurts, to really, really like people, even when you KNOW them more than what you want to know them, is an attitude which is at the centre of what I believe. It is 1Corinthians13 (go look it up), that I could do anything, say anything, be anything to everyone, but if I didn't actually love them then none of it was worthwhile. It is in fact, far beyond that. It is hypocritical.
But if a man loves people and does nothing with it, where does he stand? Well, pretty much in the same place. That a man loves other men, a woman, his family, his country, his God and does nothing, who is he? At best, he is lazy and insincere. At worst, he is a hypocrite. His attitude might be perfect, but unless his walk matches his talk, then what he has in his heart is like a talent that has been buried.
Please do not think that I am approaching either of these two extremes while being the perfect guy in the middle. I assure you now, I am both of those men. I am the one that does without loving and the man that loves without doing.
Without some kind of poetry in his heart, a man has nothing great to move him. Without some kind of good deed in his life, he has no poetry to write. Each goes with the other. Our love is grown by our doing, and the more we love, the more we will find ourselves doing.
JZ
