Well isn't that curious?...

I'm at a loss to explain how it should be that, within 24 hours of my very first post of this blog, I already have something like 5 times as many views as the ENTIRETY of my last blog combined. ~* Perhaps it is merely an affirmation that truth and encouragement are better received than are maudlin musings on the shortcomings of humanity. Especially when such expositions are peppered with arbitrarily crafted contradictions and pseudo-insightful vagaries, all wrapped up in obscene amounts of unnecessary verbiage as a cavalier display of the extent of my proficiency with language.

Even as I finished writing that last sentence, the revelation was given to me of how my former blog proves an uncanny illustration of the inefficacy of human comprehension, and the need for full submission to the guidance of the spirit. In 1 Corinthians 2:3-7 Paul says, "And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world (...), that come(s) to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory."

I feel at this point in my life that I can completely relate to the truth that Paul is voicing in this passage. For Paul, far from feeble-minded, was a man of great insight and discernment, A man educated in all the things of import in those days, and a man thoroughly familiar with God's word and the application thereof. His mental faculties were sharp, his comprehension of the scriptures truly deep and abiding, yet he "determined not to know anything among you, save Christ, and Him crucified". And that determination to operate in faith cleared the way for the Spirit to speak true wisdom both to Him and through Him, and served the purpose toward which every action of every saint in Christ should be building: Glorifying the Lord. In crucifying his old man with Christ, he gave up the manner of man he used to be, so drew not on his own resources when ministering to others, but spoke from the heart the simple truth of the hope of the gospel, and his own testimony of the power of reconciliation, and the transformation whereby his entire life had flipped around, and those to whom he ministered were filled with the conviction of the holy ghost. How do I know this? Because through his epistles he is still preaching today, and I myself have been repeatedly convicted by the words the spirit spoke through that man.

Yet those words would never have found their way out of his mouth, But for the Grace of God.

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~Codaniel Von Johnson~