Being serious about life and living, as if God wants us to ride the herd over evil, denies His divine senses of humour we can find in an honest appreciation with our blessings. Rather than being serious to a fault where we are driven by pressures, resentment, and jealousies from indignant “make it right through hardship” punishers, we can see where being sincere in our joys of display should not prevent, but encourage, such display.

Showing off what one is glad to have, because of the thrills accompanying delight with good things, flies in the face of worldly wisdom associated with the self esteem and pride of personal accomplishment where it is an unsavory insult to flaunt one’s wares in the face of public scrutiny.

It is as wrong as wrong can be to be a showoff to prod others into feeling intimidated over not having as we have, and/or to place ourselves into the false graces of compatibility with people’s belief in accomplishment as avenues to acceptance. Showing off to gloat about one’s supposed superiority causes a desired (yes, desired, not undesired because of compensation for self loathing) contempt from others.

It pushes emotions and thoughts of success into self worship through the worship of the things we have acquired. Many times this negative ‘positive’ elation is an attempt to cover shame of guilt caused by the lies and thievery used to snake out from one’s prey what is proudly touted as being one’s own reward. A self proclaimed reward for deserving to have and use what we see others of accomplishment have and use.

The main reason various types of public display, showoff, is usually discouraged is to keep the peace of mutual respect amid public rules of decency about agreed upon personal presentation and activity (civil law), where the intent of such displays most often is from overindulgence in some or another untoward illicit behavior.

The blurred underhanded abuse of the rights of privacy everyone mutually agrees to separately share (except for the open exclusive unity a man with a woman in marriage shares) bends the truth of respectful privacy into the secrecy of disrespectful intrusion.  Everyone inherently knows and feels the differences between sneaking and privacy in ways, with practice, defense of privacy will hold an aggressive barrier against sneaking.

Defending one’s own privacy is actually accomplished, spiritually, by defending the privacy of others by not sneaking into their interests, belongings, and concerns. People do not take to being startled and surprised with unexpected diversions that may insult their sensibilities, take their rightful gain, or ruin their reasons for having and using.

So, as in many things that occupy our interests, our expenses to stay safe and secure are a continual paying for the ill and criminal elements manifesting through family, friends, neighbors, enemies… just about anyone who has yet to find their faith walk in God through Christ’s leading.

When others have difficulty accepting our difference in living as the Holy Spirit manifests His Truth of being through our responses to what we are given throughout a day, we must not believe their rejection of what we do is a personal rejection. Satan surely believes in the concept, “It’s just business.”

Most public, and increasingly private, social controls are implemented to defend a belief in inferiority and shyness as the essence of tolerance, empathy, and respect. The push for self-edification to be personally happy, without interpersonal responsibilities for position and duty unto those who require of us for God’s sake, opens the doors of right vs. wrong where we work our emotional intellect to achieve the sorting out of who we should be as rightful legitimate deserving citizens.

That is why, without trusting God through Christ’s Word of who we are in Him, we are bound to our fears by striving to do right in order to avoid the consequences of doing wrong. Subsequently, what we have and do not have becomes the reason for behaving in ways that we hope will bring us better things. It causes us to fear what people will think of us, that they will look at us disapprovingly, and we will be disrespected for making fools of ourselves.

But, being a showoff, openly displaying a natural honest joy over and about the blessings the fruits of honest labor bring, and the undeserved gifts we may have whether of the mind, flesh, material possessions, or anything else that God is pleased to allow us to enjoy having, are reasons enough to buck general public opinion concerning what our life in Christ means to them.

Certainly, God knows and understands in intimate detail why we may feel compelled to righteously express our integrity in showing off our victories by shouting from the mountaintop, on our streets, or anywhere else what we find personally, ecstatically, invigorating.

The well known admonition, “Moderation in all things” bodes well to give credence to patience and leeway with those who are showing off their vigor over existence in being lifted up in their spirit by experiences that result from God’s will to bestow His desires for our well being and answers to our requests.

At the same time we must retain the wary caution that, what seems to be honest joy, may in fact be an acting out of the usual self-motivated acts of vandalism, riot, intentional public disturbance, and criminal mayhem that accompanies an “us against them” mentality steeped in the worldly wisdom of the knowledge of good and evil.

This is where social expedience, the rule of law, is oppressive to the robust free expression of natural honest being, and is at once and always complimentary and contradictory in this temporal world, to both the unfulfilled Law of Moses and the fulfilled Law of Grace through faith in Christ, respectively. Yet, we endure without needing to be, for His sake, the holding off of much of our exuberance for times eternal.

Thus, depending in situations and circumstances concerning where, when, and why, and most decidedly because of whom, freedoms in and through faithful expressions may take the forms of intentional restrained elegance or any lesser levels of appearance and/or activity we choose to engage ourselves.

The guidance we may find to extract our sensibilities away from social mires is to understand that perception does not make reality. Truth of reality leads perception. As perception is understood for its benefits in growing fruits from the seeds of faith truth of reality gives, the excitement involved with being aware of being tempts one’s pride to rely in perceptions.

This is when perception starts leading the truth of reality and reality fades from awareness with the truth it holds to lead perception. Thankfulness to our Creator becomes thankfulness to what He has created. We appreciate His pressures of gravity that hold all things equally continuing while forgetting the gravity we enjoy has a higher purpose than giving to us a place to be in our defense of being.

Any person’s perspectives of practicable choices, based in perception as the producer or mechanism of truth of reality, are attained from the combination of two elements: the primary positional awareness (the perceived state of one’s surroundings as applied to expectations from others, which any chosen actions are going to affect) and the adjustment rules (which state how any chosen action will change positional awareness, according to a person’s perception).

This reflects ways, but does not personify Gospel transformation works to instill truth of reality in anyone’s heart of understanding. But, striving to save oneself by God in order to suit social standards of perception removes the ongoing present will of God to lead and guide.

This follows that deception, through appealing to a person’s emotionally driven calculated thinking to sustain a sense of self determined rights (especially God blessed given rights from His promises in response to our promises to Him), could take place by purposely manipulating either their adjustment rules or their primary positional awareness, or both for maximized results.

Yet, the purpose of deception is to substitute one’s aims to those of the victim – as people substitute God’s aims for their own as if they are His aims. People are deceived into fantasy as reality by a dark oppressor entity and his cohorts becoming extensions of his ‘will’ of anti-truth of reality (antigravity).

When it is considered that everyone (anyone) is caught in the personal conflict between the influences to their soul by the will of their instinctual flesh person awareness, and the will of their spontaneously faith reactive will of their created spirit person awareness, it naturally follows that each person is at battle with not only themselves, but all faithless others too, where controlling one’s self to maintain order, dignity, and beneficial purposes requires others to do the same.

This false faith is a sense of solidarity to standards of faith precepts where a false doubt resists any variation to set social standards by vying for independently derived emotional thought. Since the imaginary varieties of personal perspectives in a population are infinitely distorted in their leading the shards, fragments, and pieces of truth of reality, there comes the forces of social order (and the fears to contradict such social order) to attempt to make sense of the chaos of misdirected truth of reality by “the pride of the eyes and the lusts of the heart”.

So, then, the things a society centers on in their public discourse about what is socially accepted necessarily requires rules that attempt to categorize what people do that is acceptable as opposed to what people do that is not. These rules of social standards mostly focused in and on appearances, being an answer to perception’s false leading of truth of reality, mirror the natural good ends of truth of reality in a fantasy that works to find safety, security, peace and prosperity through the means.

Now, this means that the means of truth of reality that works through faith-ful reliance in God to be Who He is in Christ are in His trustful hands in opposition to the perceptions driven unity of rules any society, including traditional organized church associations, uses to try to be a people in their own strengths and self perpetuating emotional/intellectual survival.