Brothers and sisters I am writing this blog so that each of us would question why we say and do the things that we do? You proclaim to know the truth about God and the way to God yet are the most closed minded and judgmental people of all. Which leads me to question if you know God at all. Do not read this from a distance like a place of intrigue or amusement and not for the purpose of learning, growing and understanding. We who claim to have life and life more abundantly fail to understand that all life requires growth. Growth is what separates that which has life from that which does not. If there is no growth in you there is no life in you.
God has revealed that we are a close-minded people. The bible uses descriptions like stiff-necked, haughty, stubborn and rebellious. I am using close-minded because by definition it means an opening is covered, forming a self-contained unit allowing no additions, having ended, not being worked on anymore. Now if you are a self-contained unit allowing no additions, no longer being worked on, you are close-minded. Therefore having ended, you are not growing and have no life in you. Examine yourself.
I speak with authority and understanding because I was close-minded. Being completely consumed with that which I knew while being unwilling to be challenged on my beliefs. Easily dismissing any views or positions and people that I determined were wrong primarily because they didn’t believe what I believed. I was single minded. Believing without waiver or room for question, debate or consideration in the correctness of my thoughts. My single mindedness was labeled as faith. All the while being revered as a “woman of God” and faithful one. Now I realize I was foolish, devoid of understanding and immature. Misinterpreting and not understanding scriptures as I was taught while wholeheartedly claiming my righteousness. The revelation of my sin was not revealed to me by man but by God as I began to open my mind to the possibility that I was in error. That crack in my mind was the beginning of a flood gate of illumination. God truly does not withhold any good thing from His children. I was limiting myself from understanding Him and all His goodness with all the notions and formulas and practices I’d been conditioned to believe while unwilling to change. The only thing required of me was to repent (which is change, not remorse or sorrow) the way I thought by just asking the question, what if... The painful truth is you can be so consumed in what you believe is life that you are completely unaware that you have no life at all.
There is so much I want to share with you. Yet for what purpose if it falls on deaf ears due to closed minds. Each time I think how can I continue Lord with your people, my people if they will not…. I am immediately reminded God has and continues on with and in me. He is long suffering and faithful. Therefore I will do the same. The truth of God burns within me like a fire. Fire can be a blessing and a cursing. It warms, provides light, it protects from darkness and danger, we use it to prepare food and to purge soil for growth, but it can also burn us in various degrees and it’s smoke can choke the life out of us. I pray that the fire of God in me is a blessing to and in you, and that you would open your minds to be questioned.
If all that you believe is true and right why are you unable to defend that which you believe?
