Foolish and Ignorant

Galatians 3:1-5

Foolish foolish, how foolish we are to try and understand God's Word by our own strength! I was just reminded of Peter and how he is constantly jumping in and getting things wrong because he is thinking and seeing from his own perception. He just didn't understand what God was saying because it is counter-intuitive, it's not of this world, it's not what you expect. God is so much bigger than what we can see or what we expect Him to be.

I know that I'm often blinded by what I think or what I think I know about God that I miss out on what His Word really means. I've seen a lot of christians (and I myself am guilty of this) who know that we are forgiven by God and are freed by His Spirit but yet we are so legalistic. You can't do this, you must do that, you must speak like this...after a while you do what is expected of you and you expect that of others. But in fact we live according to the Spirit and there is so much that we need to learn, that in every situation you must discern what the Spirit is saying because every situation is different. Often we read one part of the Bible and conclude that...ahh, that is how God is! But we may well have missed the whole point of it. We know about God be we do not know Him.

We need to live according to the Spirit, not our own strength, we need to have His understanding, not ours. It is only through the spirit that we can know God, to be able to think properly so that we will not be foolish.

~Sck