Vulnerability

Wow…The more time I spend studying, praying, meditating, learning and teaching. The more I realize that there is so much that I’ll never learn or know in this lifetime. It makes me feel like a fish out of water on desert sand. That may seem a little extreme, but is it? Oh, I’m thankful for all that I’ve been given, and the impact that I’ve been able to make.

 But there’s wisdom, knowledge, and possibilities we have yet to tap into. Why? We can’t handle what’s already been given to us without turning it into something destructive. The cure for all diseases is available if we tap into the right source with the right motives. Humanity will never reach equality with its creator. So, if we stop trying to be gods and learn how to trust and serve the One True God, we may find ourselves with the glow of Eden and the dominion that was once ours. Nothing’s impossible with God, if we can think it, He can do it. Wow, once again He’s All Knowing, Ever Present, and All Powerful. No matter how highly we think of ourselves we can’t be any of the three (Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient).

As I write these words, I feel like a newborn babe in all the vastness of the Hidden Wisdom of the Creator of all things. You want to talk about vulnerability? I don’t know what I don’t know. I don’t believe it’s possible for any one Human Being to possess the knowledge of God. That’s what makes Him God.

There are things beyond our control that we’re constantly speculating on, as if we can predict something that only God knows. Don’t believe the hype. The intellectual mind is so far from the Intelligent Design Mind (Father of Creation) that he tries to create an alternative truth for everything that God created. As a man, all I’m saying is we’re no more intelligent than God allows us to be. I don’t care what university one attends he/she is going to have deficiencies. Imperfection is part of the human condition. My Holy Book has a verse that says, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it are the ways to death.” Prov 14:12, 16:25 

For me that’s a scary thought. That verse tells me that we are limited in knowledge and wisdom and that we will never “arrive”. I am in no way pessimistic, but the more I learn the more I feel I don’t know. God help us in our vulnerabilities. Let Your truth be our truth.

Leslie D. Allen