“The One And The Many In Unity” ( ) [Sun Tsu First Half Re-Write #5:9]
In battle work, momentum’s King –
Like avalanche to bottom brings
A pile of rock, and snow, and trees,
It’s force is sum of all of these.Commanders know this is the case;
They know that conflict, which takes place,
Is more a matter of “The force.”
Than one component – but, of course –That sets them free to men select –
To pull them out, with small effect
On force, the need to win the fight,
If case demands the use “One” right.If one should die along the way,
Such rarely brings on group dismay;
For most remain to fight again,
So force at hand is much the same.Of course, great training boosts the troops;
Good leadership, terrain, and route,
Play in with all components here
To boost the force, and that makes clear –That it’s a complex entity,
Like Kingdom-layer, where we can see
That body-life, which outward goes,
Is complex unity below.Folks like to think they’re cat’s meow;
That in Christ’s work, they’re key somehow;
But here we see, it’s complex force
To which Christ Jesus now resorts.That’s true, of course, but Jesus is
A central figure in this biz;
He was just one who died for me,
The force of one set all men free.In that I hear a freedom-tone –
“Outliers” from the common zone
Are written off if one would see
The demos in democracy.But Christ as one – says this to me –
That all mankind in Him can see
That “Force of one” there, “On a tree”,
Can bring about a Jubilee.If Herod took that wee boy’s life,
Or later, in the daily strife,
Before Christ’s work was there complete,
No “force” could then His work compete –Against the evil-one we see,
Which messes life with likes of me;
No, “One” and “Force”, both parts in this.
Bring to awareness Heavens kiss.There’s always been a tension here –
The one and many – some despair
Of one or other, as we see
In “solo” and “community”.It’s both in tension mankind is;
No “Cannon fodder” wartime biz,
But God who cares for sparrow’s fall,
And gave His Son, to die for all.The other shows up satan’s twist –
Both ways, in Scripture, it insists –
The one and many (unity)
Are precious as “Humanity”.Thanks Lord for this.
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