Dear, Myself

Dear,
Myself

If you can just remember the pleasure of your sin, the chase like Pan and Syrinx, the lust like Byblis for Caunus, the thrill of The Wife of Bath's tale;--- You can easily remember how euphoric all of that was. The cruelty was sublime, and I get a sick feeling just thinking of it.

I suppose most people living in sin enjoy these sorts of pleasures. As you once did. As, there is a pleasure in hunting prey, there is a pleasure in chasing mates, there is a pleasure in raucous and bawdy behavior. 

There are two different types of people in the world. Sheep and Goats. Sheep enjoy solitude, we enjoy the pleasures of emotions in their season. We are easily startled, and we graze mellowly upon the grass, chewing the cud of wisdome. Goats, on the other hand, contrive plots, and see the apple upon the tree and will coerce other animals to help them retrieve it. Sure, they will share in the spoils, but the fruit was best left for the farmer's consumption. He worked all day upon it, and the goat had eaten it out from under him.

The truth being, when each his own sets up his worldly authority, the other will suffer. The good man will suffer when bad men get their regime. Bad men will suffer when good men get their regime. Because there is pleasure in hunting, chasing and raising hell. There are sublime pleasures in it, but a good man ought not do---or rather, ought to be abhorred by---those things. A good man ought to feel sick to his stomach when he encounters sin.

And because of this, when sheep are exposed to violence, they run. When sheep are exposed to sin, they bleat and will do their best to flee from it. Which is why they need a shepherd. A goat, having less knowledge than a shepherd, will sometimes lead the sheep to their destruction. They are not even a dog trained to coerce the sheep---which would be something like a demon, though give the dog its reign it would tear the sheep into pieces. 

For this reason, there are two governments upon which humans establish themselves. Good government, and bad government. And each will suit its person, either good people or bad people. And evil people call evil things good, and good things evil. Good people call good things good, and evil things evil. They are the complete reverse of each other, so they will enjoy different things. 

With that being said, keep in mind that when you speak, it is for good people's benefit, that they might find pleasure here upon the Earth, and not for evil people, who ought to feel no pleasure at all. Yet, the world is not ours, Christians, so we do not get to dictate how it operates. We have surrendered it to Christ, therefore, the only thing we as Sheep ought to do, is wait patiently for the arrival of our shepherd, and understand the Goats and Dogs have their anarchy once before the return of the Shepherd.