I am thinking about ignorance tonight. Ignorance, man, and God--a dysfunctional trinity. Knowing something quite intimate about someone dear that not everybody knows...and seeing others 'offer' gestures of good-will to this person, unknowingly digging a dagger into a very fresh wound (and ignorantly/innocently so) I have had on several occasions in the last 24 hours, the pained feeling that I imagine God has had (and in an even greater state!) innumerable times a day.
"I didn't know"...
I wonder: What does God see us "write" on his "wall"? False teaching? Dishonorable charity? Bigotry? Condemnation? Segregation? False forgiveness? Mis-directed prayer? Vain affiliation? All these things, we can so ignorantly post to God as our offerings. Some truly do desire to please and honor Him, and desire to act in true righteousness but have been led astray. Still others come to engorge themselves with self-righteousness with little regard to loyalty to their lineage. And, all are so so misguided. So, so ignorantly paining He they most want to please. How merciful and wonderful is our forgiving and patient Father!
It makes me think, too, of the disposable use of our words. The toss away way we offer up words to others...phrases and advices and comments and praises spraying into the air like carrot seeds loose to the wind. Let them land where they may?! No matter where they root, or how far from sow-worthy they are? When did we become so arrogant and self-important to assume we could be so callous with something that could be used to such heavenly good? The pen being mightier than the sword, I believe we have forgotten this. Or at least, some have....
And the others have ignorance to blame.
"I didn't know" is such a convenient scape goat, is is not?
As I sit here, I am wondering how many times God heard that today?
And, how many times did He shake His head and ask, "Then why did you not try to know FIRST, before you acted?"
what could we say? What could I say?
I would have only words to feed the extinct, and a tongue uselessly loose in my mouth....after all,
there is no argument with God. And he is right.
"I did not know" feels like a very empty excuse. Something I pray to not rely on at the judgment seat. It sounds pretty hollow to even me....and God knows how it sounds to Him!
3 comments:
deep. i like you, dani! now i feel like crap as i wrote my blog early this morning. ha ha! but, i did know what i was saying and i know God is hearing. i just won't post it on His wall ;) i need you dani.. i'm glad we have kept in contact. you strengthen me so much!
InhalePink (1:52:41 PM): only God is right
InhalePink (1:52:50 PM): (don't you READ my blog??????????)
yourdodi (1:52:51 PM): and what of the Atonement?
InhalePink (1:53:04 PM): you say?
InhalePink (1:53:28 PM): God cant make us perfect on earth.
yourdodi (1:53:39 PM): then why did he send Christ?
InhalePink (1:55:10 PM): Christ was sent as an example of something to strive for. When we stretch and we reach up high....where are we reaching to? They say..."Reach your fingertips to the ceiling"...you can't touch the ceiling (*most of us) but that's what we reach for to stretch and lengthen our arm muscles. The same for our spirits and Christ.
yourdodi (1:56:13 PM): the statements in the scriptures refer to being saved by grace after 'all we can do' the Atonement makes up for our human shortcomings .. true, no one will be perfect in this life, but Heavenly Father will allow us to be forgiven through the Atonement . how that will happen i am unsure, but i know it will
InhalePink (1:56:37 PM): i agree but...you do have to do all you can do....and who knows our limits? Only God. We need to keep reaching....never saying, "I have arrived"...this is all I can do!
yourdodi (1:58:21 PM): i agree, we must constantly strive .. that is the 'after all we can do' part
Very true. It's important not to get too down on ourselves but continue to try harder the next day :)
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