The Nark System
Blue v1-23 Ch 9 JudWalkboard (previous job-site)
No such thing as passive action~ Gal 6:7
Mike prefers the Boom over Scaffolding. This job on Michigan is not the current job
that the crew is working on for it too is from a previous job but wanted to show
what this stuff looks like.
Yesterday another (tuckpointing) Construction Company called Osha to have them visit Mike's Job-site to try to get him in trouble. The Osha rep indirectly revealed who called and that they had offices nearby Mike's job-site. Mike doesn't know these people, has never done them any wrong, but they wanted to get him in trouble? Mike uses Osha approved safety equipment and rented a safety boom to lift 40 feet above ground level to do the hi-rise tuckpointing. The Osha rep said he didn't really see anything wrong except that one of the walkboards were set one foot higher than it needed to be so we'll probably get fine $100. We were using the safety harnessing & tie downs so everything looked good.
Different Ways To Respond:
1. Get Offended - accuse other company of greed, of hoping
to shut us down so they could feel they
were having more work.
2. Become Bitter - for attacking & hurting us though we never
did anything to them.
3. Hate Them - for seeking our failure and not caring that we
need the work to pay our bills too.
1. Admit how it hurt to be treated like this.
2. Instead of letting bad behavior sink into me & attach itself
to make hating them easy, lowering my standards, we will
choose to accept that God allowed this penetration because
we can improve our business standards/personal responses/
the ability to be merciful toward a company that doesn't
deserve it, because the sad part is, whatever this company
tried to make happen for us good or bad, it is what will be
coming back to that company. It's really important how we
treat people because whatever story we think we're giving
someone else is really the story we're giving ourselves. If
the objective was to make bad happen for us, then as long as
we refrain from taking punishment into our own hands, God
will repay and i won't even have to be tainted by rejoicing in
your downfall because it truly is sad when iniquity sees it's
consequence and love does not rejoice in this (1 Cor 13:4-6).
Abimelech became king but he murdered his 70 brothers (Gideon's sons) because he wanted that position instead of letting them have it (v2,5), and the citizens of Shechem followed him in this evil.v16 Now if you have acted honorably and in good faith when you made Abimelech king, and if you have been fair to Gideon and his family, and if you have treated him as he deserves-
v20 But if you have not...
v23 God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the citizens of Shechem...who acted treacherously... (v24) God did this in order that the crime against Gideon's 70 sons...might be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the citizens of Shechem, who had helped murder his brothers.
Notice that evil was sown. Evil was reaped. And when you fight evil with evil no one is saved. We fight evil with good, but just because we do, it does not stop the law of sowing and reaping. There is no passive action. In every story we are either acting evil or acting good. If doing both it's still the case of evil~ if the light that is in you is really darkness, how great is that darkness? Good fruit only produces good fruit. Good is only good. Evil can look like all kinds of things~
This is a sad story. It would be better that nobody did the wrong but it does show how God will repay evil as long as we don't try to punish it ourselves. Fighting evil with good by walking in Love is the best substance we can give away because only love will stop the bad cycles then change the story that something good may happen. ~And whatever story-action we are giving away is really the one we are reaping for ourselves, which is why we never need to base our responses off of other people or external experiences, we decide what's coming to us and it's based from our own actions.
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