REVELATIONS

Jesus once promised that whenever two or three were gathered in his name, he would be there also. While it is comforting to know that the Lord is there I can’t help wondering to myself at times what he must think of the confusion and chaos that seems to follow too many meetings. And worst of all is how so often there are such radical different interpretations of various scriptures, not to mention so many contradictory views of what it means to be a Christian.

It would be hard for me at times to not feel that all this craziness hardly furthers the cause of Christ. I also can’t help in that same vein wondering if one projects back into the past about some of the aspects regarding revelations and inspiration.

For example we know God gave the law to Moses and the people of Israel while they were in the wilderness. Yet there were numerous generations prior to the time of Moses. So was it not important for them to have the same understanding as it would have been for the people of Israel?

Likewise it is hard to fathom that during that period prior to the flood when Adam and Enoch, who we are told walked and talk with God, wouldn’t have some important insights about the Lord. If they did and if Noah was so instructed we were never provided with any preserved writings.

I am not strolling this path to in any way question God’s will in this regard. I’m simply conveying the basic idea that obviously one’s relationship with the Lord is not totally dependent on what has been spiritually revealed. Which I think points to the reality that ultimately God understood the nature of man far too well. He appreciated that regardless of the truth we would do as all mankind has done and filter what we think through our own values and what is important in our hearts.

That to me helps makes sense of why the bible often lends itself to so many different interpretations. The Lord simply understood that human nature being what it is no matter what was provided in terms of revelations we would end up choosing to believe what we wanted to believe.

Why then did God even bother to provide any scriptures at all if we were going to prejudice them with our own bias? Well I can only venture my own opinion. I think in part it was because man did evolve spiritually over the centuries. And so he gave us little doses of insight as we matured spiritually as a race of beings.

But in the end this would prove to be a double edge sword. For some this “grace generated timetable” of revelation meant future generations would have more opportunity for understanding and more accountability. That doesn’t mean we necessarily are willing to embrace the reality that the greater the light of inspiration the greater the judgment.

However for myself I am grateful to live in this age when I have access to so much of what God has shared about himself. I only hope and pray that along the way I will not spend more time deciding what the information means according to my understanding than I do being willing to listen to his spirit open my heart and soul to its true meaning.