Elements and Protection

   There are two things everybody deals with. They are physical protection from the elements of weatherized nature and spiritual protection from inordinate affection. In all the various areas of influential interaction these two are involved. Sorting out the balances, the details, is why most people are confused and disoriented with not only what to do as the right way to go, but also what to do to maintain self-assuredness. This is where the two, natural protection and supernatural protection, find the fragmenting desire for removal of the objectionable and consistent gathering of  personal satisfactions to interact.

   For any focused and/or calculated or spontaneously reactive attention(s) to transpire there must be anybody’s acknowledgement that he or she is not self-contained. Being physically separate from others and at the same time dependent upon others for survival brings one to see shared and individual responsibilities as simultaneously group reliant and self-governing. Contingent in anything is the constant moderation of ‘me’ or ‘them’. So it is when it comes to how embarrassment is both severely hampering and jovially inconsequential whether it be in a small private matter or known world-wide.

   This is because, as people have their distances, various cultures, and personal rights to do as wished, there is a common sense of private personal humanity shared throughout. The more inclined a person is to hide from embarrassment the less a person is equipped to deal with their own, as well as others’, inconsistencies. Of course this is also the ultimate embarrassment; that a person is needful rather than self possessed. Embarrassment can undermine one’s confidence, ruin prospective careers, and destroy relationships, businesses, or even a life.

   We believe others are thinking what they are not while expecting them to not think what we do. The fears of the unknown, projected onto the depths of the sea, the far reaches of space, or perhaps in avoidance of destructive cultures and lifestyles feeds the internal fears of embarrassment where we expect those in whom we depend to keep secure our community standards to not be embarrassing so that they may not embarrass us. Daily, we are usually embarrassed any time we look foolish, oafish, or incompetent in public, and in like association we are embarrassed for others either with compassion or insult.

   Embarrassment can stop you dead in your tracks. It is covered by high expectations for social standing that sets up those who are successful for great public blunders – and includes disproportionate levels of standards for those ‘less fortunate’ to admire – and, again, opens the doors for more personal embarrassment for those who are not in the public eye. Reduced capacities for empathy through fears bound to self-protection give rise to ‘pointing-finger-resentment’ and belligerent standoffish mudslinging. Tired of that, those unacceptably non-compliant social misfits are banished from acceptance…

   There are millions who sincerely believe there is no chance in hell they will be accepted into God’s heaven; because of what they have allowed, and/or caused in their and others’ lives. The deception there is each and every person that is breathing and has warm blood flowing through his or her veins (that would be anyone and everyone who is alive), is not devoid of God’s grace in Christ – the natural measure of faith each person has to at the least survive.

   Dejection in one’s considerations, and contempt from others judging; those combined, is the anti-christ pressures of persuasion that keep failing disoriented people bound to false reflections about self-worth. We are warned to beware of the rare individual who seems one who cannot be embarrassed because they represent the rebel spirit that tells us our embarrassment, useful for maintaining social order, is dangerous to peace and tranquility – dangerous, either but not both, to the wilds of nature or eternal salvation.

   We categorize them as over-intelligent, lofty, rude, greedy, or anything we allow our minds to think that expresses how we might be embarrassed if we were to ‘be as they are’. That is where the well known concept of soul Redemption is misunderstood. Redemption means that our Created value is accomplished in Christ; that our severance from His glory is over. It does not mean to own up to being remorsefully/emotionally bound to sorrow and grief.

   Therewith, people are held to false identity. Repentance means acknowledging release from the bondage that holds guilt appeasement as a way to rectify reimbursement and/or retaliatory retribution. It is to step away from the wrongs vs. rights, the oppressive burdens of forced compliance to shame, into the thankful joys of revealed forthright honest liberation – redemption. Repentance is to honestly recognize His ‘price paid’ policy of appreciation by extending our faith-awareness to those who are yet to see why they become embarrassed.

   We have not been taught it is disrespectful to our neighbors to worry about what they think of us. We have yet to understand what the apostle Paul(?) meant when he said, “Whatever state you find yourself in therewith to be content.” He was not speaking as much about physical conditions as he was spiritual soul alignment with others for God’s sake. Accordingly, self-mortifying embarrassment is mostly in our own emotional thought/mind where our naturally created exuberance in faith has been beaten to the humiliating pulp of submission to a wayward world estranged from God in Christ.