RESOUNDING HEART ELOQUENCE

Is there any sound more beautiful that the dulcet tone of pure, sincerity as it flows from a heart with a melody of honesty? There is just something so soothing to one’s sense of insecurity to deal with someone who looks you in the eye and speaks in a way that you can sense deep down in your spirit is genuine.

Unfortunately some people are masters at false sincerity. They learned at some point the right words to say in order to make it sound like they are caring and loving and genuinely interested in you as a person.

Of course sooner or later they will remove their mask. And when they do it can truly devastate one’s ability to trust. Not that the person will care for they will be off to find another victim.

For those of us who have been victims of this kind of evil behavior the scars often run very deep. It can make you leery of trusting anyone or wanting to be involved with any organization or group that is like the one, which cause the wound.

When this happens on a spiritual level the consequence can sometimes be even worse. One assumes that when dealing with people who have spiritual values and believe in God that there behavior would be more prone to be ethical and they can be trusted to do what they say.

I only wish that this were the reality in all situations when it comes to houses of worship. But that isn’t the case. And I am aware of all the biblical rhetoric that is offered up about how we as Christians should strive to be good witnesses for our Lord.

But what in reality did Jesus mean when he said we who followed him would be his witnesses? Given how we are so imperfect even when the Holy Spirit is working in our lives I do question if he expected us to be witnesses in terms of righteousness.

What I embrace starts with what I’ve been taught about the very real meaning of that word. It really communicated the concept of witness in terms of being a martyr. Essentially whereby it is the essence of our lives and not our words that is our real witness.

That becomes something where people see the change in our lives and you don’t have to constantly shove it in their face with a lot of speeches. Which must also be support by the willingness to be honest. Not to don the make up of self-righteousness to pretend it is our live that is important, but to openly share that Jesus is the one who is perfect. And it is our imperfection that we admit to, which speaks so eloquently about why we feel we ourselves need salvation.

For some though this path of spiritual articulation is unappealing because it doesn’t give you a chance to impress. It doesn’t grant one the chance to share the limelight with our lord. Spoken from the heart the truth about who we are will always be more eloquent than any of our presumed deeds of flawed moral behavior.