Mar 2015
Filed in Biblical Studies by Steve Smith on February 9, 2015
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It’s time to see truth seeking less as ‘tick/check-box’ exercise and more as ‘signpost’ and here’s why. We try to capture truth and wisdom with our language, theology, doctrine, and ideas; and, this is OK as a start, but provided we don’t finish there, seeing our capturing of ‘it’ as the be-all-and-end-all of truth-seeking and understanding. Instead, we should resist the temptation of capturing truth as the ‘whole truth’, and rather let ‘our’ wisdom, metaphorically speaking, go free! So, wisdom should act more as a signpost toward the deeper truths concerning the unfathomable depths of God’s love, and thereby away from our own shallow insight and understanding. As it says in Proverbs 3:5: “Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight and understanding.” And at the beginning of verse 7 it continues: “Be not wise in your own eyes.”
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It’s time to see truth seeking less as ‘tick/check-box’ exercise and more as ‘signpost’ and here’s why. We try to capture truth and wisdom with our language, theology, doctrine, and ideas; and, this is OK as a start, but provided we don’t finish there, seeing our capturing of ‘it’ as the be-all-and-end-all of truth-seeking and understanding. Instead, we should resist the temptation of capturing truth as the ‘whole truth’, and rather let ‘our’ wisdom, metaphorically speaking, go free! So, wisdom should act more as a signpost toward the deeper truths concerning the unfathomable depths of God’s love, and thereby away from our own shallow insight and understanding. As it says in Proverbs 3:5: “Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight and understanding.” And at the beginning of verse 7 it continues: “Be not wise in your own eyes.”
