Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle

 

Psalm 144:1 + Proverbs 24:6 + Ecclesiastes 9:14-18 + 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 = Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who teaches us the architecture of the human mind to design divine mental weaponry. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who helps us engineer divinely empowered psychological technology.

With each pursuing year, we suit up with upgrades that Mark our armour with new powers of perception and stronger rays of insight to blast into this dark world of thinking.

After a decade of upgrades, we say blessed be the Lord, my rock, who upgrades our armour to divine nanotech.

The Kingdom's Social Poker

One aspect of Kingdom wisdom is exhibited in social poker (1 Kings 3:16-28). Here, the person gathers intelligence on what emotional cards others are holding close to their chest. The person plays a conversational card and catalogues the defensive instincts reacting to it. The reactions that others have towards others’ reactions are also taken into account. Finally, the person “counts the cards” of the entire context, discerns the presence/absence of defense mechanisms, and matches which unconscious reactions correspond to whose hidden cards. And pierces through the bluff. 

 Those who follow Jesus this way grow in this respect. 

 (If you want good practice for your everyday life, put on your detective hat when examining the evidence in political scandals.)

Runway Words

A designer of verbal expression enjoys the intrinsic task of word selection. One’s vocabulary becomes a wardrobe of fashion garments, mixing and matching ways of dressing up ideas with articulatory flair. There is fun in the verbal dressing room trying matching word combinations in front of the mirror of resonance. Finally, the best match is found, and the model phrase walks out with perfect expression.