i want to understand God, and live my life in a way that glorifies Him.
i read lots of books when i first became a christian.
some of them i thought were good, but later i realized they were not the greatest of theology.
so i learned to 'eat the meat, and spit out the bones'.
i mean, i wouldn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, would i?
there is lots to be learned from people's perspectives, even if they are fallable and prone to error.
God has a deposit in all His children that we can learn from.
i mean, we all miss it on one or another area of theology...
and even if authors miss it big time in one area,
they may have some pearls of wisdom i can glean from amongst the chaff.
i know the heart of God enough to recognize error when i see it.
and it pleases God when we diligently weed through the junk to find the gems,
faithful to His call to search out wisdom!!!
i'm so hungry for wisdom!!!
Genesis 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
i mean, it can't be all bad, right?
even when you eat food, you get chemicals that are toxic in large quantities,
but you wash off what you can, and trust that your body will filter out the rest.
our bodies can handle wee bits of poison, right?
it's obvious that God has truth in all of creation,
and can make Himself know through any source,
i mean, He even spoke through an donkey!
any wisdom i can glean is worth the effort of separating from the sludge.
i know what's error and what's true, i can always recognize it--
because i have the Holy Spirit indwelling me,
and He will always lead me away from wrong.
i'm desperate for wisdom.
i really want to know God!
i'm looking for it constantly,
in everything i read, in everything i hear.
truth is everywhere, if we just have ears to hear!!!
....strange, my ears are kinda itchy right now....
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...lead us, Lord...
...may we search for wisdom in right places...
...give us discernment to recognize what tree the fruit is on...
...that we would feed on truth and not deception.
~lynnie
"He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
ReplyDeleteyup, that's the verse i was alluding to!!! :)
ReplyDeletefor some reason the tags for the post aren't showing right now: labelled 'humor' and 'irony' to let anyone who read to the end and still thought it was serious to give it more of a think... was it clear that i was portraying something that is all too common... but naive and vulnerable to deception?
ReplyDeletethe idea is that we are eager to have ears that hear.... but we can be caught up by our pursuit of wisdom that we forget to examine closely the source....
and sometimes we hear what our itching ears *want* to hear....
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