Job 36:22
Behold, God is exalted by His power; who teaches like Him?
There is always a tendency to produce an
absolute authority; we accept the authority of the church, or the Bible, or of
a creed, and often refuse to do any more thinking on the matter, and in doing
so, we ignore the essential nature of Christianity which is based on a personal
relationship to Jesus Christ and works on the basis of our responsibility…
On the ground of the redemption, I am saved,
and God puts His Holy Spirit into me; then He expects me to react on the basis
of that relationship….
The only way to understand the Scriptures is
not to accept them blindly, but to read them in the light of a personal
relationship to Jesus… A scientist can explain the universe in which common
sense people live, but the scientific explanation is not first; life is first.
The same with theology; theology is the systematizing of the intellectual
expression of life from God; it is a mighty thing, but it is second, not first.
Excerpts from Oswald Chambers
Daily Devotional
Bible, Reading 234 (8/22)
From Baffled to Fight Better
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