What would you feel if something grab a certain words you've said, and interpret to create meanings which you've never intended?
What would you feel if your business partner signed the same black and white agreement with you, but understands its contents very differently than you do?
And what would you feel if your spouse interpreted the vow "creatively", but far from its powerful, life-binding yet simple meanings.....
Let's put a comedy spin into it. If you're a teacher and you've designed a test paper full of questions with their objective answers. What would you think if your students suddenly feels the "inspiration" to write answers outside the confined A, B, C or D. Meaning, he creates his own answers because he doesn't think the answer is found in your provided options.
Don't laugh. I'm not finished.
So, what would The Author feel if you and I interpret His written Word, according to how we "feel" everytime we take it up and read? According to where we've come from, where we are and where we think we're going? To fit the words of the Master of the Universe according to our tiny circumstances and crisis?
Now, that last paragraph was meant to probe and provoke, nothing more. So is this post today. And my next upcoming post.
It troubles me enough to yank me out of the bed so early to write this.
Place of Springs (A Devotional Essay On Psalm 84)
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Do you have a favourite house to visit? It could be a friend's or
relative's place. It is a place you look forward to. There, you feel
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