Wednesday, July 6, 2011


The importance of humility in handling revealed truth, and “speaking the truth in love” is a great caution for us to hold on to if we feel we know what God has revealed as truth. In our finitude and limited understanding (“now we know in part”—“we see through a glass dimly”), we can be far from the mark of the application God wants us to convey. Our understanding of situations is always limited (relative) to not knowing all of the circumstance. This includes all of our understanding of God, though it is reality revealed in His Word (The Bible); our understanding is limited in perspective. An example is the caution of James to “being quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger; for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” Our anger, even if justified, is limited to our perspective. “All our righteousness is as filthy rags.” Therefore anger in us produces, more often than not, immoral or unrighteous results. Yet God can be angry and bring about righteousness. YHWH is Absolute Love.

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