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Divine Submission

Faith is works, they are organically related, inseparable in application and indefinable apart from one another. Sharing the same host, (our souls) we cannot remove one quality or aspect without destroying the host. In a deeply intertwined relationship they are joined to become one. While each shares it’s own motifs the steps required to achieve either can only be seen as linear when viewed retrospectively. Thus a solution which seeks to alter the outcome of one over the other can not be plotted or executed given our inexorable condition as victims of ignorance. We must maintain a perspective which acknowledges our inability to extrapolate any elucidation of a strictly transcendental reality. Let us never allow our preoccupation with the orphic nature works affiliation with faith consume us to the extent that we inoculate ourselves to poignancy of the gospel which can only be known through a spiritual experience.


What callous and prideful ignorance we must embrace to discard our divinely imparted intuition clothing ourselves in the semblances pragmatism, that we might explore this topic with any objectivity. No, indeed we are not impartial in this discourse. Thus, if we are to engage this issue we must acknowledge that we are inescapably subject to one of the most paradoxically cyclical doctrines of our faith. 


Accordingly, the gracious spiritual impartation of faith which leads a person to thirst for deeper fulfillment, exposes instead that their greatest yearnings were altogether insufficient. Thus begins the paradox, faith explored instills a desire for further and more puritanical desires. Accordingly, the divine impartation of faith initiates a sort of chain reaction, one which has been building from the depths of our unsatisfied explorations of depravity, which only upon faiths imposition in our life ignites a vacuum of desires which has reached critical mass. So as each quality of faith is explored, it creates a passion for an outlet of this faith, through an aspect of faith known as works. This desire having been prompted by faith through the spirit’s leading ignites in us a  a passion not simply for works, but also a deepening of our faith through the experiential blessings of faiths expression known simply as works. Accordingly, within this frameworks arises a crossroads, an individual may seek to follow the spirits prompting, acting in their faith, or deny this prompting, acting outside of faith, in the pursuit of their tertiary desires. Thus, a person may a. follow the prompting of faith (the voice of the Holy Spirit) to request and even seek, a desire for an expression of their faith so as to fortify and sustain it’s continuity in their life. Or b. reject the promptings of faith (suppressing the spirit) in pursuit of their own depravity, in denial of their faith. Either way the issue clearly becomes an issue of mans suppression of the Holy Spirit, while seemingly less of an issue of faith versus works. 

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