CODE PARIPASSU
Not too long a post (hopefully) but a message that has been brewing in my heart.
Should you have the chance for any form of intervention or public speaking or influence, ensure you always address ALL stakeholders. It may prove laborious, rigorous and tasking but if you’re truly set out for godly results with lasting impact, this is the code to engage.
When you preach to the offended to forgive and tell them it is imperative, your message is more complete when you address the offender and God’s vengeance.
When you tell children to honour their father and their mother, your message is more wholesome when you tell parents to not provoke their children to wrath.
When you teach honour, loyalty and spiritual authority to followers, you ought to follow up with addressing leadership abuse and expectations of love, protection and self-restraint.
When you teach submission at all costs to wives, God is watching you when you’re silent on love at all costs to husbands or vice versa
When you request that single ladies’ chastity is ascertained, there must be a command that also ascertains the virginity of single men. Chastity is not gender exclusive.
When we expect employers to step up in remuneration and other desirable emoluments, we must hold employees accountable in reciprocal and measurable devotion.
When we repeatedly and unjustly reprimand, rebuke or direct one party, we are brewing resentment, revolt and rebellion on that side. There is likely to be no positive outcome in the long run. Telling men to stop being abusive and not addressing abusive women as well or women who engage true advocacy for false or conjured up narratives is very dangerous. Also, telling women to submit till they lose their lives in the presence of torment, torture and unaccountability is equally as dangerous.
True interventions address ALL stakeholders. This was Jesus’s style. It was Moses’s code and it surely was Paul’s system.
In the words of Solomon in Ecclesiastes 7:18 – “It is good to grasp the one and not let go of the other. Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes”.
In the words of Rev. Kennet Hagin – it’s better to stay in the middle.
Righteousness and JUSTICE is the foundation of God’s throne. Ensure when you’re at any point influencing a decision or position, that you’re truly just and the scales aren’t imbalanced.
