We pursue inhuman objectives.
For though walking about in flesh, we do not war according to flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5 MKJV)
Paul is talking about himself and his associates. He goes on to note that he was sort of waiting on the Corinthian Christians to bring their thoughts into captivity of Jesus. He was in no position to exercise divine moral authority until they had that ability to see past their own intellectual biases and submit to the Laws of God. It’s a nice lyrical phrasing that helps us realize that our minds are unruly about having to serve the heart-mind, unruly about relying on moral consciousness for executive decisions. If your heart doesn’t rule your mind, you’ll never understand what really matters in God’s eyes.
While I write about these things in bite-sized posts, in my own heart they are all united in one grand vision of divine justice. My books all come from the same place, and the unifying influence that prevents compartmentalization is the moral outlook through which I see all Creation. I can only tell the story that courses through my soul. You have to write your own.
Do you see that? I’m not interested in political wrangling except as a form of entertainment. I’ll never be a direct participant. Just getting me to obey God’s Laws is a monumental effort; how could I pretend to direct the life of anyone else?
It applies in the virtual realm just the same. The real issue is not trying to leverage controls on what passes across the wires, but to simply assert my Lord’s dominion over my own computer and the activities I pursue on the Net. Some company named Automattic grants me a limited dominion on this blog, not enough to block the advertising, but to decide what does and does not appear in the content of the writing itself. That’s the way covenants work, engaging two moral entities in limited sharing of dominion. All dominion is under God’s sovereign authority, and He parcels out according to His whims and inscrutable plans. However, the ultimate responsibility for my computer security is with me in reliance on His power, not some other human power. That’s the nature of the Net; attempts to govern by meat space dominion typically fails. I have no business demanding other computers follow my code of conduct; the protocols exist independent of my will. The Net is.
As I pray and meditate on this burning message in my soul that brings me to this Project Foul Winds, a critical element is seeing how the Net has served as a radical game changer in meat space. A lot of very old efforts by ruling elites to exercise dominion is crumbling to dust before our eyes. The edifice of meat-space control means nothing on the Net, and I sense that a great many powers in this world are scrambling to find some way — any way at all — to regain their power, but it’s running between their fingers like sand.
Given enough time, we’ll face a new elite with their own evolved methods to meet the capabilities of the Net. The same demonic influences that have always been around will manifest through those new methods, so it’s important that we learn to recognize the signature by looking past the people and machinery used in service of those influences. That’s because we need to understand them as they are on the moral plane and respond in the power and authority of the Creator, not some imaginary power of human hands. We have to exercise that same authority in every space to reclaim the blessings of our Lord’s mercy and divine justice.
We use the weapons He provides in the moral sphere to accomplish moral objectives.
