I just don’t understand?

Hosea 4:6 - My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me. Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (21^st KJV)

We why do we perish, metaphorically or literally? Is it because of the lack of knowledge?  Is it the lack of teachers, mentors, coaches or ministers to help us to understand? Is it because we do not want to know because it might require us to reexamine our own storied-past with an expanded and all encompassing perspective?  Because it is more than just reading and having a tempered understanding of what is present. Dr. King in the Letter from the Birmingham Jail state this - “Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”  As Christian, we are purveyors of just that in our dispensing of biblical rhetoric based mainly on traditions and oral history, than authentic understanding of the theology taught, preached, and quoted... let me pause her with a commercial break, I am not negating the importance of traditions and oral history, saying we need to start doing making the same efforts with our spiritual pursuits as we are doing with our secular pursuits…Our desire to impose our imperialistic perspective, and push this ecumenical bent, than to be an all inclusive of God’s divine diversity.  These are two things do not work well together, thus confusion ensues. The latter is about fostering friendly relations amongst different religions, while the former is about imposing its ways on another that are different, mainly.  But no one has stop to consider what is happening to realize it.

Only when we are willing, and begin to face our fears can we learn to like ourselves and trust that others will accept us, as us broken, imperfect, but seeking, and overcoming. Reaching the place where we see our beliefs have become our blindness, and hinders us from moving beyond our comfort zone limits. When this happen, we will no longer revel in the thought – I just don’t understand. Rather we will see it as the thing that limits us from seeing how great our God love toward us is, and basking in the mercies granted to us daily. Then we will take this verse to heart and have it permeated in our soul - Proverbs 4: 7 - Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding (21^st KJV). And we will not be lost, or have lack but live in an abundance which is beyond material or tangible manifestation of wealth in our life but does not exclude it (according to the measure we can handle, in our life). We begin to live in a world of informed consent, and unparallel sharing, not a the slow death of the frog in the water brought to a slow boil…it is all our choice... I have chosen...wink