Friday, February 16, 2007

I Don't Understand, Am I Supposed to?

5 As you do not know the path of the wind,
or how the body is formed [a] in a mother's womb,
so you cannot understand the work of God,
the Maker of all things.

(So, if we have figured out the wind and how a baby is formed in a mother's womb, should we also understand the workings of God?)

He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.

8 I heard, but I did not understand. So I asked, "My lord, what will the outcome of all this be?"

9 He replied, "Go your way, Daniel, because the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.

a people without understanding will come to ruin!

But they do not know
the thoughts of the LORD;
they do not understand his plan,
he who gathers them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

"Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand. 14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah:
" 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding;
you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.

"Those who were not told about him will see,
and those who have not heard will understand."[a] 22This is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

1For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

(I don't even understand if I am supposed to understand or not . . . ?)

1 comment:

liraelwiddershins said...

Remember that the Bible can only be seen through the filter of man -- men wrote it, men translated it. Every translation, even, is different.