I have never blogged in my life. In fact, I am not sure what ‘blog’ means. So to try and come to some kind of personal understanding, I will begin with this thought:
B. Becoming
L. Loving
O. Oracles of
G. God
(1 Peter 4:11) declares: “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God gives: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
It is interesting that the very next verse in 1st Peter speaks of the ‘fiery trial’ as not being a ‘strange’ thing.
Oracle: (Logion): comes from words meaning-‘a fluent utterance of God’.
The longer I live the more I realize, and am exposed to, the arrogance that can be found in all of us. We humans, by and large, seem to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think and to justify that thinking by comparing ourselves among ourselves; which the Apostle Paul says “is not wise”. Somehow we have learned to desperately try to expose the splinter in our brother’s eye in the futile hope that the log in our eye will not become so apparent.
God, in His love and mercy, is patiently bringing his sons and daughters to a place of humility, through the fiery trials of life. God’s ultimate goal is to enable us, by His Grace (Divine enablement), to ‘become loving oracles of God’. He is building up a people who will, in time, become fluent utterances for God; in order that He might be glorified through the Christ.
We are all so blessed to have a Heavenly Father who loves us enough to not allow us to continue as self centered, self absorbed, self gratifying babies.
“Thank you Father for your great love and mercy extended to us. Thank you gracious Lord for dealing with us in whatever way is necessary to bring us into a more fruitful and meaningful way of life. We love you and we embrace your hand of correction; because we desire to please you and we long to hear and see clearly.”
Linden Curtis
