Quote for today
If the grace of God comes, everyone and everything changes; however, in order for it to come, we must humble ourselves first.
I am currently facing a “humbling” experience. I have a European friend who is Pentecostal. He is very polite and tuned in to his emotional nature, certainly never rude. But I am increasingly finding myself on the verge of saying things like, “I don’t care what the bible says,” or “I don’t want to hear about Jesus anymore,” just because of the constant chatter from him about spiritual things. It actually sounds profane to me when I hear people like him constantly using the name of Jesus throughout the day. The idea that someone without University training, knowing virtually nothing about church history, a peasant and a former soldier, would feel qualified to go around the towns and villages of his country pointing the people to a better way, a more spiritual path, while dismissing as “demonic” the 2000 years of church tradition present in those towns and villages, seems to me completely ludicrously. Is this the fruit of spiritual gifts? Is this where speaking in tongues, so called, leads? I am not in a position to judge, although I find the intensity of his devoutness quite draining and find myself feeling increasingly like a non-believer when I’m on the verge of saying things like, “I don’t want to hear about Jesus anymore” and “I don’t care what the bible says.”
