One day when I was in Argentina, I ran into a teeny problem at an ice cream shop. The menu was in kilograms. I don’t speak metric, so I wasn’t sure how many kilograms equaled a pint of ice cream, so I chose the half kilo. And that’s when the employee grabbed a bucket—a bucket!—and started scooping … and scooping … and scooping! Finally, he took one of those tiny gelato spoons and—bloop!—stuck it in my bucket. The moral of my story? It’s hard to know what to do when you don’t know what something means.
That’s true in church too. There are moments that feel “metric” to us, words we use that aren’t totally foreign but are a bit fuzzy. “You must be born again.” “How’s your walk with God?” “Do you know God’s calling for your life?”
Your Father wants you to understand his Word so you can apply it in your life and enjoy it in your heart. As Paul wrote, “Otherwise when you are praising God in the Spirit, how can someone else … say ‘Amen’ to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying?” (1 Corinthians 14:16).
Nothing is sweeter than hearing about God’s grace and getting it. That’s why I want to urge you to slow down, ask questions if you don’t get it, and humble yourself for the sake of understanding. You who humble yourselves will be exalted, exalted in knowing—truly knowing—the Word that a loving God is speaking to you.
