Humility in how we discern the Word

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Feb 7, 2012
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I wanted to take the opportunity to promote humility and pray that we continue to aspire to having a humble heart. We have so many different backgrounds of people, with different life stories and experiences that offer interesting insights to a wide array of scriptural conclusions. Sometimes our scriptural conclusions may differ, but we can still be open with hearing one anothers discoveries in the Word and considering all the positions in order to be more complete in our own understanding. There can be a tendency when one hears something that they don't necessarily have the same understanding on to eagerly tell or prove to someone that their wrong and give what they believe to be scripturally correct in their own conclusion. I think with humility, if one can recognize that their conclusions are just what they are presently, and realize that through continued study those conclusions can always change, we should rather decide to offer our scriptural perspective as something else for the person we may not have the same understanding with to consider, and deliver those considerations respectfully so the receiver can hear the thoughtful analysis, rather than just hear a poor attitude of one just thinking the view they hold is categorically 100% right. I don't mean to type this as to preach to anyone, because I'm just as guilty of this myself many times still. Speaking with love and respect, God bless. :)