If it works our poorly, it is all my fault, and God was not within a million miles of this enterprise. If we cannot keep our mouths shut, and we all too frequently cannot, at least we could accept responsibility for our actions. But we are too quick to shirk the blame. Any of those statements may be true, and often are, but all too frequently, we just were not listening. Or under pressure to be viewed as spiritual, we speak into the silence and hear only the echo of our own voices.
Christians often make mistakes.
Maybe you have made some rather large ones. Maybe you have heard of some of my more dramatic ones. Now that is a voice worth listening for. And a pronouncement worth repeating. Copyright 1999 by David Sisler.