Once upon a time.
I would study find what I could find an learn what I could learn and see what I could see.
I would do word studies and topic studies.
I would compare translations and investigate the Greek and Hebrew behind them.
I still do those things but they all have taken a back seat.
Now I read my bible looking for the blank spaces.
For what I don't see.
What I don't have the understanding of alive in me through the Spirit.
Then I make out my shopping list.
God I don't see how this could be.
God I don't have this.
God what exactly is it that angels are longing to look at and Can you show me from their perspective.
God why is it like this and not some other way?
God I never tried this before can I have it?
I want to come away not with answers but questions for God
request for God.
Be more like a kid in a candy store waiting to be given the spirit of the truth.
No more grasping in the darkness of my own capacity, trying to assess and appraise the things of God with mere reason.
No I want the Spirit of the Truth, I want God to give it to me.
I don't want to make or buy my own.
I don't want anyone else to feed me.
I just want to taste and chew on what God sees fit to give me.
I can close my bible and wait for it.
After the light is turned on within me, then I can read and dig with my understanding.
Like understanding what you have been given rather then something you know you don't have yet.
It has been a most beneficial change.
Less dependence on reason, more dependence on the Spirit and Person of God.
I would study find what I could find an learn what I could learn and see what I could see.
I would do word studies and topic studies.
I would compare translations and investigate the Greek and Hebrew behind them.
I still do those things but they all have taken a back seat.
Now I read my bible looking for the blank spaces.
For what I don't see.
What I don't have the understanding of alive in me through the Spirit.
Then I make out my shopping list.
God I don't see how this could be.
God I don't have this.
God what exactly is it that angels are longing to look at and Can you show me from their perspective.
God why is it like this and not some other way?
God I never tried this before can I have it?
I want to come away not with answers but questions for God
request for God.
Be more like a kid in a candy store waiting to be given the spirit of the truth.
No more grasping in the darkness of my own capacity, trying to assess and appraise the things of God with mere reason.
No I want the Spirit of the Truth, I want God to give it to me.
I don't want to make or buy my own.
I don't want anyone else to feed me.
I just want to taste and chew on what God sees fit to give me.
I can close my bible and wait for it.
After the light is turned on within me, then I can read and dig with my understanding.
Like understanding what you have been given rather then something you know you don't have yet.
It has been a most beneficial change.
Less dependence on reason, more dependence on the Spirit and Person of God.
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