sometimes sage, sometimes silly

What do I mean by that? Well, I was talking to a good friend just now on the phone and the meaning of my blog title came out of my mouth without me even realizing it.

Rewind: We were conversing on the matter of grace and the fact that everything we receive, everything we are is a matter of God's grace. I was explaining the huge leap I made in my quest for self-worth when I found the verse in Romans 9 (cf Isaiah 29) saying the pot had no business asking the Potter why He made you this way. I realized that I had no right to question God about my appearance or anything else about how I was made. I came to terms with the fact that everything about me was how God had intended it and no matter how I perceived "me," God was pleased with what He had made. However, my friend and I also talked about the world's idea of beauty and worth versus God's idea, because honestly, there are people who have not even a semblance of earthly beauty or zero social, intellectual or technical skills and it seems like God has abandonded them or failed them in some way. It seems to me that all ugliness and ineptitude is a result of the fall. I'm thinking if there had never been sin, the perfection of Adam and Eve would be all that was known. Maybe I'm totally off base, but who knows? Maybe I'm just silly.

So, we come to the moment that hit me..."sometimes sage, sometimes silly" is humans with finite minds attempting to understand and explain the Infinite. We don't know anything that God hasn't revealed to us. When we speak from that revelation, our words are sage, wise, true. But when we speak from our own understanding and attempt to sound sage, we are nothing but silly. Paul encourages us in Colossians to teach and admonish one another with all wisdom as he says he and his fellow missionaries did with the power God worked through them. He warns us not to be deceived by clever-sounding, though worldly philosophies.

But, that's not all. I do want to be sage. I want to speak about God and the meaning of life with the wisdom of the revelation we have in Scripture. I also believe, though, that there are times when we don't have to be so dadgum serious and it's ok to just be silly. So, there you have it...that's me...Sometimes sage, sometimes silly.