Thursday, January 12, 2012
its funny how sin causes everything to go wrong. even the simple act of reading the bible can go wrong when pride gets into the way! i was reminded during a talk of how the main aim of bible study is so that we can
rightly respond to a passage that God is speaking to us.
lately i think my objectives have become warped, and i am quite obsessed with the idea of becoming someone who can interprete the bible just like that. going to regenerate bible studies and talks, i often feel very inadequate as i am not able to answer most of the questions posed, and somehow i cant think in the way that i need to. ): it is a struggle to keep up, which would leave me discouraged, thinking that i cannot interprete the bible on my own, because, what if i do it wrongly?
so this has often caused me to lose motivation to study the bible because i had told myself that i couldnt do it.
i attended a talk by regenerate and they reminded me how the aim of bible study is not about how to study the bible, but
how to know God better! when i heard that, i was just ashamed. i just felt like a Pharisee. in all my efforts to try to understand the bible, i only knew how to pick out the wrongs in what people were saying, but i never really thought much about my response after reading it.
i know God will forgive me, but i hope i didnt stumble anyone just because of my pride, and my selfish pursuit for knowledge.
this is an interesting video that has been circling facebook. it was strangly apt to my situation, so i thought i should share it here. i thank God that many have been touched by it, and i hope that you, you innocent reader, will be blessed by it too.
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avoid the aliens;
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