The other day, in a note, I witnessed a person pouring out their heart and some of their conclusions about life. What was interesting is that almost every statement ended with a period & a question mark. As I considered this oddity, I realized the openness of this person's life.As finite people, we can never securely put a period behind a conclusion we have drawn about life, people, or the world around us. Unless we are willing to follow our periods (personal opinions) with question marks, we are not available for growth.
Throughout Matthew chapter 5, Jesus told the religious people that what they felt they had fully understood about God's law was not the final thing God would have them understand. They had put a period on their knowledge of God and failed to continue to seek to know Him and to find the Truth that would set them free.
As a church, we are a bunch of people who have discovered the Source of our answers, but are still growing in our understanding of the answers. We all have questions and God has answers. We will never fully understand the final answer to life's questions while we are still in the corpse of this flesh, even though God has revealed them in His Word. Ours is a pressing on, ever growing, from glory to glory relationship with our God and Savior.
Putting a question mark at the end of our understanding is not to say we cannot know something but it does remind us that there is more to know.
May this be a year of growing in our knowledge of God and not the year we groan in what we think we know. My prayer.
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Great Point. Growing up in an ultra conservative family in which the topic of the day centered around (weather, colligent sports, and the market) it is nice to have a forum in which you can engage in topics with meaning. Clay/Chris have helped me to be more transparent. After working 60 hours on other persons problems I like to come home, read your blog with scripture and relate it to my life. Thanks for the insight.
ReplyDeleteWow! Jim that was an awesome blog. I really enjoyed it. We have to accept that we can't know all the answers or at least the depth of the answers. Only God does and for some people that is really hard to do but it's the truth. Thanks for that!
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