A Place

Today I had to fill in as one of the Adult Sunday School Teachers, in fact within the class I attend. This is not my normal time spent, as I do the Wednesday Night Adult Bible Study, so I was a bit outside my comfort zone, but then God does that from time to time, get us to move to a place we normally do not visit. This place is not a constant either, as it is a every moving, ever changing place. You see, for the most part I, like many others, I believe, are very comfortable in the place we have made for ourselves. We have developed a view of the world, a view of God, a view of his Word and we see all this within the realms of our own thinking, our own view, our own frame of mind. I think, and perhaps you do to, "how does this fit into the way I think" we interpret the scriptures from our own point of view. And in the course of this thinking we have remained in our own place. No spiritual growth, no personal growth has occurred. As if we say to ourselves, I love sitting in this mud, I am comfortable in this slime of my present thinking, my present belief system, God, no matter what he says, is not going to change my mind. Oh how stubborn can I get! God teach me to open my heart and my mind to your way of thinking, to your way of doing, to your way of loving, and in doing so my place will change.