Preaching To Myself

Too many thoughts have been racing through my mind lately.

Here is a quote that is an overused quote that has miraculously not lost any steam.

"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world?
Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church's prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament."

What if we took Jesus seriously? What if we truly believed the bible was the word of God? What if we actually did as we where told? What if we took 'dealing with difficult people' a step further and forgave those who wronged us? What if we claimed nothing for ourselves? What if we lived a life of meekness rather then asserting ourselves? What if we really did hunger and thirst for righteousness? What if we sought a life of purity? What if we didn't let any unwholesome talk come from our lips? What if we loved our enemies?


And that's only the beginning of the new testament...