"Poking The Bear" [Sun Tsu Series #6-15] (Matt.5:13-16; 13:10-17, 33-35; 27:12; Luke 5:1-11; 6:12-14; 10:1)

Test, probe, and fight your enemy to find
Where they have excess, strength, suffice in kind;
Where there’s abundance – plus inverse of that –
Where they’re deficient, insufficient, lack.

Pressing perfection – Zenith, pinnacle,
The consecration of your own control,
Pushing the ultimate, the highest peak
Of dispositions – formlessness you seek.

In your deployments, imperceptible;
Forming your Army, formless to the full;
To ascertain your shape may be their goal –
In form there’s nothing ascertainable.

If you stay formless – shape and your control –
Concealed to outside, sheltered from the foe,
Deepest of agents penetrating spies
Can’t see the formless with their prying eyes.

There, undercover, hidden deep within,
Subtle discernment – no place to begin;
Can find out nothing, they can’t penetrate
What has no form yet, that will keep you safe.

Great machinations of the wisest brains
Can’t get foundation to come up against
Your formless forces – though ingenious,
Schemes, plans strategic, are prevented thus.

Jesus stayed silent on His courtroom night;
Taught them in stories; laid out in the light
His disposition, mentoring the pairs;
Then mentored mentors – future would be theirs.

Silent as leaven hidden in the dough;
Salt in the porridge, where you’ll never know;
Light from a lamp-stand bouncing ’round the room;
All this is formless – SWAT team coming soon.

Thanks Lord for this.

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