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Sloth, Ease and Technology

05 Tuesday Feb 2019

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There is a kind of lethargy which does not lie precisely in pleasure. John Cassian, the 5thCentury Christian Monk (wrote approximately 495 A.D.), writes of a discontentment, a not caring (a-kedia, a lack of care):

 Our sixth combat is with what the Greeks call ἀκηδία, which we may term weariness or distress of heart. This is akin to dejection, and is especially trying to solitaries, and a dangerous and frequent foe to dwellers in the desert; and especially disturbing to a monk about the sixth hour, like some fever which seizes him at stated times, bringing the burning heat of its attacks on the sick man at usual and regular hours. Lastly, there are some of the elders who declare that this is the “midday demon” spoken of in the ninetieth Psalm. [Ps. 90(91):6, where the Latin “et dæmonio meridiano” follows the LXX. καὶ δαιμονίου μεσημβρινου̂, instead of “the destruction that wasteth at noonday.”]

 John Cassian, “The Twelve Books of John Cassian on the Institutes of the Cœnobia,” in Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, trans. Edgar C. S. Gibson, vol. 11, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1894), 266. He goes onto discuss the ends of this disease thus:

AND when this has taken possession of some unhappy soul, it produces dislike of the place, disgust with the cell, and disdain and contempt of the brethren who dwell with him or at a little distance, as if they were careless or unspiritual. It also makes the man lazy and sluggish about all manner of work which has to be done within the enclosure of his dormitory. It does not suffer him to stay in his cell, or to take any pains about reading, and he often groans because he can do no good while he stays there, and complains and sighs because he can bear no spiritual fruit so long as he is joined to that society; and he complains that he is cut off from spiritual gain, and is of no use in the place, as if he were one who, though he could govern others and be useful to a great number of people, yet was edifying none, nor profiling any one by his teaching and doctrine.

John Cassian, “The Twelve Books of John Cassian on the Institutes of the Cœnobia,” in Sulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lérins, John Cassian, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, trans. Edgar C. S. Gibson, vol. 11, A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, Second Series (New York: Christian Literature Company, 1894), 267.

While there is the appearance of ease, it is not precisely laziness. It comes from giving upon seeking the true, the beautiful, the good. In Christian theology, it is giving upon God. The English novelist Evelyn Waugh deals with this issue in The Sword of HonorTriology:

Here is why acedia is so difficult to identify: this vice does not attempt to replace our human telos, which is to love and serve God, with some secondary good like sex, possessions, or food. It does not inordinately prefer a particular good at all; rather, it says “no” to a difficult and demanding good. In Waugh’s words, acedia “is the condition in which a man is fully aware of the proper means of his salvation and refuses to take them because the whole apparatus of salvation fills him with tedium and disgust.” The vice might manifest either in lethargically refusing to do what “the whole apparatus of salvation” requires of us, or in seeking distraction from the parts that happen to be irksome. Any distraction will do, even something good: the fourth-century desert Christians told stories about slothful monks who did works of mercy in order to distract themselves from some greater good of prayer or service which they had come to abhor. Acedia, therefore, cannot be diagnosed by what we happen to be seeking (either good or bad), but by what we are avoiding, and why.

Heather Hughes, “An Unconditional Surrender,” baylor.edu, accessed January 7, 2019, https://www.baylor.edu/content/services/document.php/212242.pdf.

Jen Pollock Michel in an essay in Christianity Today, “Move Over, Sex and Drugs, Ease is the New Vice, https://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2019/january/technology-move-over-sex-drugs-ease-is-new-vice.html, accessed February 4, 2019 speaks of the effect of technology which continually grants us more ease:

The decline in sexual activity and cereal sales hardly seem correlated, but both seem to point to one of the most seductive promises of a technological age: that ours should be an unbothered life. As our lives (at least in the developed world) get easier, we are increasingly formed by the desire for ease. Of all the cautions we raise about technology—its distractions and temptations, its loneliness and superficiality—this promise of unencumbered living is perhaps the most insidious danger and also the one we talk the least about.

In making this evaluation, she sees something real (technology takes away effort and allows a disembodied ease — there is no need to exert the body), but I believe she has missed something the earlier Christians noted: this Midday Demon, acedia). She does note that this desire for ease is the enemy of love. In that she is correct. But the analysis may be wrong: if this “ease” is not actually comfort but is really more not caring: a spiritual dullness as opposed an actively sought comfort and ease, then the analysis is a bit different. The technology is making use spiritually stupid, dullards to reality.

 

Anne Bradstreet, Meditation 20: Supports for His Children

03 Thursday Dec 2015

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God has suitable comforts and supports for his children according to their several conditions, if He will make his face to shine upon them:
He then makes them lie down in green pastures
and leads them beside still waters;
if they stick deep in mire and clay,
and all his waves and billows go over their heads,
He leads them to the Rock which is higher than they.

The Consolation and Comfort of the Gospel

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by memoirandremains in Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, Preaching, Uncategorized, William Romaine

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William Romaine, in A Treatise on the Life of Faith, set out the consolation and comfort of the believer from the Gospel:

“1. All men having broken the law, and being under the curse of it, Christ was made under the law, that the law might reach him as the surety of his people; accordingly,
2. By his obedience to the precepts, and by his suffering the penalties of the law, he redeemed them who were under the law; so that,
3. They are no longer in bondage to it, but are made free, and have received the adoption of sons; and,
4. They have the spirit of liberty sent into their hearts to witness to them, that Christ fulfilled the law for them; and,
5. That the Father loves them, as his dear children, and they love him and serve him without fear, calling him Abba, Father;
6. Wherefore they are no longer servants in bondage to any one, but are made free indeed, being now the sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus- And,
7. If sons, then heirs of Gods, and free to inherit whatever he has promised to give his children in earth and heaven.”

Excerpt From: Romaine, William. “Treatise upon the life of faith.”

I have learned to abound

04 Monday Mar 2013

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Paul writes to the Philippians:

11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.

Philippians 4:12-13.

We can understand why Paul would need to learn how to live with being brought low. But the idea that “good” could be something which would require wisdom and learning seems positively foreign. Consider the words to a popular Christian song

Blessed be your name
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the worlds all as it should be

This is contrasted with the “road marked with suffering”. I don’t mean to push too much weight onto a song which was not written to bear too much scrutiny (I think of the ghastly graduate thesis where a poor student tries to wring some semiotic significance from a pop song). But the given of the song is that getting what I would like (even if it is not a sinful thing, merely a matter of comfort) is how things “should be”. For the Christian, isn’t everything “as it should be?”

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Ecclesiastes 7:14. Both want and fullness present trials:

7 Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die:
8 Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,
9 lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Proverbs 30:7-9. Melanchthon explains:

In prosperity, men become reckless; they think less of God’s wrath, and less expect His aid. Thus they become more and more presumptuous; they trust to their own industry, their own power, and are thus easily driven on by the devil.—

Buchanan draws out this point at greater length:

Alas! that prosperity, instead of thus drawing the soul nearer to the great fountain of all blessedness, should, on the contrary, serve so often only to wed it more closely to the world! It is in this way that “the prosperity of fools shall destroy them” (Prov. 1:32). As was exemplified in the case of Israel of old, “Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness: then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.” Therefore the Lord said, “I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be” (Deut. 32:15, &c). Solomon himself had painfully illustrated, in his own personal history, this fatal tendency of outward prosperity to alienate the heart from God. The wisdom, and wealth, and power with which the Lord had so remarkably endowed him, became his snare. In that dark season of spiritual declension he tried to be joyful. He said in his heart, Go to; I will prove thee with mirth. He withheld not his heart from any joy; from any joy, that is, but one. He had ceased to joy in God. And how empty and unsatisfying did his earthly joys prove! Of the best of them he had nothing better than this to say, “It is vanity.” When he, therefore, with all this experience, says, “In the day of prosperity be joyful,” let us be well assured he does not mean us to repeat his own error; but rather that, taking warning from that error, we should turn every blessing we receive, whether temporal or spiritual, into a fresh argument for stirring up our souls and all that is within us, to praise and magnify the great name of our God.

Robert Buchanan, The Book of Ecclesiastes Its Meaning and Its Lessons, 1859, 259-260.

Of the two, ease and mirth are the more dangerous:

2 It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart.
3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Ecclesiastes 7:2-4.

How then did Paul learn to abound? Did he merely consider the end of death? No, he writes, “I can do all things through him who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13).

In what does Christ strength Paul? By rightly valuing all the things of this life. He happily receives gifts and comforts as gifts from The Lord which will prosper those who give them (Philippians 4:10 & 14-19). But Paul does not fall into the trap of trusting in such things:

17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
18 They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,
19 thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.

1 Timothy 6:17-19. He sees a thing for what it is — uncertain. But he also sees something better:

12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Philippians 3:12-16. Thus, the answer is not enforced poverty. The answer is not a grimace and growl. We may learn how to abound by realizing that even gaining the entire world cannot compare with Christ:

34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
37 For what can a man give in return for his soul?
38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”

Mark 8:34-38

Encouragements of the Christian Ministry (Bridges).2

27 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by memoirandremains in Charles Bridges, Exhortation, Ministry, Uncategorized

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Bridges next mentions one of the dearest encouragements of Christian ministry: the love and encouragement of the people we serve. It seems to come at the most needful moments. When it seems unbearable, God provides grace and strength through the hands and words of a friend who leaves a kind note, or comes by for lunch, or says, “I’ve been praying for you” (and I know its true). Such comforts overwhelm those who spread bitterness and slander. As Bridges writes, it is a “full compensation”.

The Christian minister may have an obligation to teach and to lead, but he can never think himself somehow apart from the people for whom he must answer. Too often pastors — and it is even worse for the wives of pastors — try to hold themselves aloof from the congregation. In so doing, the minister loses one of the dearest comforts God has given for the ministry:

The interest we possess in the affectionate sympathies of a beloved people is also a subordinate source of comfort and encouragement. Here we find a full compensation for the scorn of an ungodly world, and the secret spring of many an hour of support and enjoyment, by which we are carried forward in our painful course. The Christian and intelligent part of our flock well know, that we are “men of like passions with themselves,” that our path is strewn with snares, and our hearts are keenly wounded with sorrow and temptation. Christian sympathy engages them to communicate with our affliction.

Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry.

There was no one to comfort them

01 Monday Oct 2012

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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3:

1 Again I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
2 And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
3 But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

In Ecclesiastes 3:17, Qoholeth has already explained that God will bring those into judgment who have brought wickedness into places of judgment. However, the fact of God’s coming judgment does not end the present evil.

What then is a Christian to do? First, we must see the fact of oppression: “I saw all the oppressions ….” Until we see the oppression, nothing can be done by us. Second, we must feel love, empathy with the brutal effects of sin (for all oppression is sin and results from sin), “And behold, the tears of the oppressed”.

Third, what do the oppressed lack? “And they had no one to comfort them.” He repeats this twice, thus, it is a primary point of the passage. In fact, their pain is so great, that it would be almost better to have not lived than to suffer such oppression.

This is not the matter in Ecclesiastes. It is also not the end of the matter in the Bible. What then must be done by the Christian? Well, we know God’s great hatred of oppression: the prophets are full of denunciation of those who oppress the poor. Second, we know that God has given many commands to his people concerning oppression and comfort. Qoheleth tells us the oppressed suffer in part (perhaps the worse part) because they have no one to comfort them.

Consider now what Jesus says of the judgment:

31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.
34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’
37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’
40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Matthew 25:31-40.

The Doctrine and Practice of Mortification.55

10 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by memoirandremains in Biblical Counseling, Puritan, Thomas Wolfall

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Mourn Until God Gives Comfort

            We must mourn till he that has wounded us shall come and heal us, Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up (Hos. 6:1).  It is an easy matter to wound, but not so easy to cure and heal again; it is the prerogative in this case that belongs chiefly to God. The flesh can vex us and Satan can tear and trouble us and wound us, but none of these can cure us again; but now God can as well heal as wound.  Here is one thing further to be observed, that the prophet does not say that sin or Satan has wounded us, and God will heal us; but he has wounded us, and he will heal us and bind us up; for a man may have these wounds by sin and Satan, and yet no true cure, the cure that these physicians can give us are of no value: is either to cast a man into a deep or rather a dead sleep of security and hardness of heart, or to suffer him to fall into despair, and hasten his own untimely death as Judas and [illegible] did; but where God once b y his spirit smites the heart with true remorse for sin, then he is moved by the same spirit to seek unto God for the cure of that wound as it was with Elisha that after Elijah had put his mantle upon him, he presently comes after him (1 Kings 19:19).  So whereas the Lord shall be pleased to work in us a true sight of our misery, he never does it without some hoep of mercy, that when we feel our burden we might likewise come unto him for ease and comfort.  These are those comfortable [comforting] speeches, that a father pitieth his own children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him (Ps. 103:13); and that promise he will not break the bruised reed nor quench the smoking flax (Matt.12:20); and taht exhortation come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will ease you (Matt. 11:28).

Richard Sibbes: The Danger of Backsliding.2

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by memoirandremains in 1 John, 2 Corinthians, Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, James, Preaching, Puritan, Richard Sibbes, Service

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Now lets us consider the observations of Sibbes upon the text, with a particular eye to the lessons that can be learned for practical ministry:

BLESSED St Paul, being now an old man, and ready to sacrifice his dearest blood for the sealing of that truth which he had carefully taught, sets down in this chapter what diverse entertainment he found both from God and man in the preaching of the gospel. As for men, he found they dealt most unfaithfully with him, when he stood most in need of comfort from them.

First, God’s people must comfort and minister to God’s people:

As for men, he found they dealt most unfaithfully with him, when he stood most in need of comfort from them

God ministers comfort in two ways: First, God ministers comfort immediately: That is, God provides his Spirit directly and without means as a comfort.  Paul references this in verse 17:

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me

Paul has mentioned this elsewhere. In 2 Corinthians 1:3-4:

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction,. 2 Corinthians 1:3–4 (ESV)

When I say that the comfort of God is immediate, I do not mean that it is without means.  The typical manner of comfort is through the Holy Spirit making the Word of God living and active in our heart so as to bring comfort. Thus, one person may read Psalm 46 and experience no comfort and another may reads the words and find themselves resolute and at peace:

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 (ESV)

God becomes an effective refuge in the act of reading, meditating, praying, believing.

Second, God’s comfort is meditated through the actions of other believers.  The concluding portion of 2 Corinthians 1:4 reads:

[God comforts us] so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

God comforts us immediately, so that we may comfort those who need comfort. We receive comfort to give comfort.

The obligation to provide aid, the command to love is a command to do – which no believer may safely ignore:

16 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:16–18 (ESV)

John’s command is no warning. James makes this plain by appending the most severe consequence to the one who will not love in word and deed:

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. James 2:14–17 (ESV)

While Paul was sustained by the Lord, the Lord’s body, the people of God, owed comfort and help to Paul. The failure to provide such comfort was a failure of faith, hope and love.

How to Live With Affliction

26 Sunday Feb 2012

Posted by memoirandremains in Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, Luke, Psalms

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Psalm 56:

8 You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?
9 Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call. This I know, that God is for me.
10 In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,
11 in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Observations:

1. There is no promise that we will not be afflicted. Rather, we should expect affliction (1 Pet. 1:7). A great pain in affliction lies with the loss of expectation.

An illustration might help: Imagine a doctor informs you of cancer when you are young and recently married. The news devastates you. Later, when the cancer goes into remission – after you have lost your hair an your body is frail- you are overjoyed. Yet that final state of baldness and weakness would have left you down a year earlier.

Realizing that affliction can and will come should spare us the loss of expectation, which is a chief pain in any trouble.

God permits such trials to teach us to not trust in this world: It has been cursed. Our ultimate hope is God himself. Our rest is secure in the age to come.

2. Our affliction does not leave us without hope: I know that God is for me.

Memorize vv 9-11.
Write down at least five ways in which you can see the Lord’s care and provision in the midst of trial. Has God made a promise for this trial? Has God given comfort directly or indirectly? 2 Cor. 1:3-11.
Write a prayer of petition and thanksgiving for God’s help and promise to help.

3. Realize how little any trial can bring: What is the most any enemy can do? What can the State do? Kill my body? And then what? I will be present with the Lord.

Luke 12:

4 “I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.
5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!
6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God.
7 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.

4. Additional homework:
Read through Psalm 56 twice per day for one week.
Pray through the Psalm on each occasion.
Keep a journal of how God has provided help and wisdom.
Find one other person whom you can encourage.

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