Comments on: Quote Quality http://www.angiewashington.com/2009/06/quote-quality/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:02:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: annie http://www.angiewashington.com/2009/06/quote-quality/comment-page-1/#comment-4739 annie Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:57:18 +0000 http://www.angiewashington.com/?p=2011#comment-4739 Good ponderings! I believe (this is spur of the moment, kinda) that it is very good for us to ponder the Word of God. That is, to taste it, chew it over, discover what it actually says, hear what it is saying to us right in that moment, and leaving room for what we can't yet see. So in a sense, we do this. However, we also can never subject the Word of God to the logic of our human minds. To do so would be to say that a God great enough to create the vast expanse of the heaven, the details of the tiniest part of a cell and blood vessel, <i>and</i> personally be acquainted with the lives of 5 billion people, ought to be understood by one tiny mind who must study to learn what the solar system is, even name and understand the organs of the body, and keep 100 people's names and life stories right. On this scale, we have to see that His understanding must always be supreme to ours, and in that, accept what He says for what it is - whether or not we understand it. In this way, we ascribe Him greatness, and don't inflate our own ideas to the level of doctrine. My mind also probes and ponders, and purports, along with Einstein, "Question everything!" Questioning of Truth is solid, when you understand that Truth is always greater than your understanding of it. Therefore it will hold up to intense questioning. Other things may fall. But His Truth will stand untoppled, regardless of what man may say about it. I love His strength. Good ponderings! I believe (this is spur of the moment, kinda) that it is very good for us to ponder the Word of God. That is, to taste it, chew it over, discover what it actually says, hear what it is saying to us right in that moment, and leaving room for what we can’t yet see. So in a sense, we do this. However, we also can never subject the Word of God to the logic of our human minds. To do so would be to say that a God great enough to create the vast expanse of the heaven, the details of the tiniest part of a cell and blood vessel, and personally be acquainted with the lives of 5 billion people, ought to be understood by one tiny mind who must study to learn what the solar system is, even name and understand the organs of the body, and keep 100 people’s names and life stories right. On this scale, we have to see that His understanding must always be supreme to ours, and in that, accept what He says for what it is – whether or not we understand it. In this way, we ascribe Him greatness, and don’t inflate our own ideas to the level of doctrine.

My mind also probes and ponders, and purports, along with Einstein, “Question everything!” Questioning of Truth is solid, when you understand that Truth is always greater than your understanding of it. Therefore it will hold up to intense questioning. Other things may fall. But His Truth will stand untoppled, regardless of what man may say about it. I love His strength.

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