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Pastor Randy said something I really appreciated the other day, “We are afraid of what we do not understand–and really afraid of what we DON’T WANT to understand.”
Oh boy, is that the bane of my existence, the blight on my potato! It was a timely reminder because I often forget that. I forget that some people don’t want to understand or to change.
Some people DON’T WANT to understand.
Another Pastor once told me, “they do it because they believe it is acceptable and they can get away with it.” Such simple words, but they have often eluded me. I will drive myself half mad attempting to weave elaborate explanations for other people’s behavior, always assuming they just don’t know any better.
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to explain to spiritually blind people what is sitting right before them. Spiritual blindness, it’s just something my brain doesn’t like to accept. They can’t see it, because they don’t WANT to see it. I always think I should be able to show them, because if they knew better they’d do better.
But that isn’t true at all and I know it. There’s always a payoff, a reason why we stay trapped in things we claim to not want to be trapped in. We don’t want to understand, because understanding might require us to give something up.
Pastor Randy’s post was about mediocrity. I may well be somewhat mediocre in life itself, but I have never wanted a mediocre relationship with the Lord, never the quiet complacency of perpetual safety and comfort. Don’t settle for mediocrity.
Yes, ma’am. I think that is why I have to stay away from certain men blogs, otherwise it will drive me crazy. I have to keep quoting to myself Psalms 37…do not fret over evildoers. We can fret ourselves to death over what others do and erode our own joy.
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Amen, Pam. I too need to stay away from some places and to guard my own heart. There are things in the world that will just rot your soul. Cut out the soul rot. 🙂
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Were you at our revival last night IB? We had some people there but none said their name was Gabrielle. Preacher preached about the church at Ephesus having lost their first love and becoming…mediocre. He didn’t use the word, but that was the gist of the message. His was actually much more pointed, and involved loud talking and pulpit banging. He made some really heated point about how at his place, people come to church in a rainstorm, pull under their nice drive port, have boys and girls who volunteer to valet park cars, and then carry on about the vast sacrifice they made to come to church in the rain. Mediocrity in action.
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Ha! I was with you in spirit, Wally. Thanks for having me. Valet parking,huh? Very funny.
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No fake on that. I guess people volunteer to get wet on behalf of people who don’t need to. I kind of thought that was really neat actually.
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Well said…and coming from you, thanks for mentioning me….
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