"How should a jelly not conform?” -- C.S. Lewis
Jelly doesn't have the backbone to stand up for itself. It is always found in whatever shape it was last left in. It cannot rise to the occasion for the same reason it cannot rise on any occasion -- it cannot rise at all. It is soft where it should be hard. It lacks a nerve. It is pliable. It is whatever shape anyone else wants it to be and pointing in whatever direction anyone else wants to bend it.
Psalm 106:30
Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stayed.
The evanjellyfish cannot conform to God's will and stand up because that requires a resolution it does not possess. It can be conformed to any whim or fashion other than one that insists on consistency. It is no credit to the jelly that it’s bowed down. It cannot lay itself down because it cannot stand itself up. If you cannot stand, you cannot take credit for just laying there.
Jelly is tossed to and fro by the waves and winds of other’s opinions and can't stand its ground because it is not anchored down. There’s nothing to hang on.
James 1:6-7
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
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