Thursday, May 17, 2012

Human error vs. confusion

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. ~ Francis Bacon

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with. ~ Peter Marshall

I hope you don’t mind me telling you all this. One can learn only by seeing one’s mistakes. ~ C. S. Lewis

Selah.

There is no shame on being wrong about a point of truth or spiritual life. In the context of spiritual abuse, there is definitely no shame in being wrong -- especially for second generation persons involved, or new Christians caught up, etc. Every single one of us can be led away from the central path... all it takes to be led astray is to be one click off at the starting point; then, down the path, it will eventually be many clicks off.

To use the jargon of military marksmen: One click off at rifle is way off, downrange. And in spiritual terms, this is so true! One click off from Christ as center -- Christ and His Gospel alone -- will eventually mire the followers in toxic faith.

There is no shame in this.

The only shame involved is when someone uses confusion to maintain the error. Bringing the error to full light of day is to correct it. Bringing the error before Scripture, in soul-searching prayer, is the beginning of freedom. Every one of us, at some point, has been in error... thankfully, it is often the starting point of great favor and blessing.

The Apostle Paul began his evangelistic path first in error -- and in the corrective of revelation of Truth, knocked off his high horse, and then days in the Desert. In fact, all the early followers did the same, to one degree or another. Fear not the error then, friends. Rather flee from the confusion which allows the error to remain!

Selah.

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