Creation is not reaction. Reaction often feels like creation, but more often than not, it is merely an obedient response to the action of another.
Yes, obedient because the actions others utilize are usually little more than commands, incitements, enticements, and provocations. They demand a response, expect a comeback, and yearn for a backlash, all of which reaction is more than willing to supply in spades.
The commanded, incited, enticed, and provoked are not genuine actors but reactors. The script they choose to follow is not their own. They speak lines penned by others and move across the stage following directions that are not theirs.
If action is the pressing of a button, then reaction is the pathetic movement of the button returning to its original position after having been pressed.
Every reaction to incitement, enticement, and provocation is obedience to a command. It is the admission that I have allowed my thinking, action, and conduct to depend entirely on the thinking, action, and conduct of another.
A true Christian cannot allow his actions to be mere reactions; nor can he act in a way that serves only to incite, entice, and provoke others into reaction. To do either lowers him to the level of his enemy – to the mundane, average, predictable, and common ways of thinking, acting, and being.
True Christian thoughts and acts are not and cannot be knee-jerk responses or compliant responses to outside forces. True Christian thoughts and actions transcend reaction and all reactive activity. They grow organically from the depths of inner being and turn the incitements, enticements, and provocations on their heads.
Creation is not reaction. As such, it never feels like reaction because it obeys nothing external and rises above the actions of others – far above the reach of even the worst of incitements, enticements, or provocations.
If done well enough, it also provides the inciters, enticers, and provokers the opportunity to rise above their own actions.
Yes, obedient because the actions others utilize are usually little more than commands, incitements, enticements, and provocations. They demand a response, expect a comeback, and yearn for a backlash, all of which reaction is more than willing to supply in spades.
The commanded, incited, enticed, and provoked are not genuine actors but reactors. The script they choose to follow is not their own. They speak lines penned by others and move across the stage following directions that are not theirs.
If action is the pressing of a button, then reaction is the pathetic movement of the button returning to its original position after having been pressed.
Every reaction to incitement, enticement, and provocation is obedience to a command. It is the admission that I have allowed my thinking, action, and conduct to depend entirely on the thinking, action, and conduct of another.
A true Christian cannot allow his actions to be mere reactions; nor can he act in a way that serves only to incite, entice, and provoke others into reaction. To do either lowers him to the level of his enemy – to the mundane, average, predictable, and common ways of thinking, acting, and being.
True Christian thoughts and acts are not and cannot be knee-jerk responses or compliant responses to outside forces. True Christian thoughts and actions transcend reaction and all reactive activity. They grow organically from the depths of inner being and turn the incitements, enticements, and provocations on their heads.
Creation is not reaction. As such, it never feels like reaction because it obeys nothing external and rises above the actions of others – far above the reach of even the worst of incitements, enticements, or provocations.
If done well enough, it also provides the inciters, enticers, and provokers the opportunity to rise above their own actions.
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