“The Many Uses Of Chaos” (Rom.8:1ff; Mt.23:37; Is.30:21) [Reflections on Ralph D. Sawyer's Translation of One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies - Battle Tactics of Chinese Warfare # 69-70]
Two chapters with some added text
Give many lists of times to wreck
The plans and ways of those deployed –
Disorganized – plans rendered void.It takes an eye, discerning like,
To notice if it’s fake – for tight
Can be the real beneath the mess;
Mistake that one and all the rest –Will snap to form and bring you down;
Intelligence has gained renown
As key; Sun Tzu said, “Based on facts
Disorder can be seen as that.”Like fear and fright; or widespread doubt;
Some move in haste; no thought about
Their strategy, avoiding harm;
Forced to constrict some crucial arm –Which leaves them in a turkey shoot,
While facing order in your troops;
Create disorder many ways –
Like “Kick their cat”, which sleeping stays.At times of making change folks can
Be vulnerable – for any man
Can’t think two things at once – a mind
That’s busy can’t solutions find.The lists go on and on – we see
Ourselves who face the enemy
Of evil-one and all his ilk,
Observing us like cows to milk –Contented in disordered ways;
Oblivious, we often say,
“No problem here; relax; chill out;
In moments just preceding route.Lord Jesus, now I get the scene,
For You have access (clearly seen),
To move right in – impactful love,
Delivered midst their push and shove.Creating chaos in his plays;
Disrupting Satan’s clever ways;
I had not seen its use before –
Kept trying to tidy up the floor –When all the while it can be great –
If chaos reigns – don’t hesitate
To enter in and give folks aid –
Disrupt the plans which Satan’s laid.Flip side of that – is “Ordered be” –
“Turn left”, “Turn right”, “Abide in me”;
“See that?”, “He’s soft”, “She needs a hug”
“Round up those floating logs with tug”.Lord, I’d not viewed your Work this way –
Where, through Your guidance, day by day,
We can impact our world around,
When order’s in disorder found.Thanks Lord for this.
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