The Grand Pause

A Loss of Cohesion through Inordinate Self-Absorption:

As the perfect alien, Goliath induced a shudder within the bones of King Shaul's forces. He caused panicked fear on my levels, but his most deadly effect was that he had no compunction against railing aginst the Creator of all things. His argument was with God, and the armies of Shaul were the theater in which the battle unfolded.

Because King Shaul could find none to defend The Name among his thousands of soldiers, the enntire army and the people traveling with it in support began to doubt the teachings of the elders. reality and to disbelieve in their calling to be stewards of his mysteries.

 The courage of double-minded men fails them as they encounter scale. Once certain of the simple truth that HaShem lives, they are unable to recognize their maker, their master, their lover, the life within every breath they steal, believing it is the atmosphere that keeps them alive.

Have not strangers given witness to the Spirit of Elohim? Why, then, should those who have been instructed in the writings that testify of him that his power, authority, and approach unto rule has any resemblance at all to the ways of a destroyer? They listen to report of his counsel as if it were a litany of demands, and his outreach is not received as an embrace, but as the beginning of an arrest.

HaShem watches without blinking every moment of every split second as the rulers of Earth usurp the authority he has invested in them to prove them, and us as well. He has no need of weaponry to protect his interests and to serve his ends. He will bring order by edict as the world's errors give him reason to increase the tempo of his intent, shortening the days of darkness. He will astonish us with the compelling swirls of his strange songs, and those who have taken his name in vain will cringe in their hearts, praying for invisibility.

Goliath is collared and dragged into the light to cast his shadow against our faces, that we might flee or fall where we stand. He is a simple ogre intent on paralyzing us with wonder at his disfigurements and his alien strength, but he is not unique. A Goliath lurks in the curtains of every age and in the details of every private experience. He is little more than an explanation or an excuse for our being less than we know ourselves to be.