Untitled: To Know a Thing Rightly

soomin:

andymin:

There’s a certain power you feel having a thing “figured out”. There were once noble men who sailed to Africa and found a tribal people who danced around a fire with masks on. These noble men came to learn that these tribesmen believed they could invoke the spirits through song and dance to bring…

“For the same reasons, brilliant scholars will never understand the Bible as well as a child. To a scholar, Jesus is a first-century Jewish teacher, a worker of miracles, a healer, a prophet, a priest, the Messiah, the Lamb of God, the Suffering Servant of Isaiah, the son of David and rightful King, the true Israel, Abraham’s promise, the new Adam, the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity. Yes, yes, and amen.   But, to a child, He’s amazing.   No amount of study or figuring out can teach you that. That’s what takes knowledge and turns it into intimacy. God is known most rightly not in comprehension, but in mind-blown soul-shook wonder, when you’re on your knees, captured by the mystery of His holiness and beauty.”

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‘wisdom is first of all, pure’ (james 3:17)

Puts into words so effortlessly what I’ve had so much trouble voicing.