by Trent - originally posted June 24, 2006
Family gatherings often involve massive meals. When we get together this summer, at our reunion, I am going to eat like a pig. I've had a couple of meals this year with family that I swore were the best meals of my life. But, one thing is better then eating those meals ... the only thing that beats it is when the next day, you can sit on the potty and get rid of most of the meal.
Our bodies take food in, and digestion picks up whatever value the food has. But, what is nice is that whatever is not the best gets promptly expelled.
GraceHead.com is like a buffet teaching from multiple sources. Take it and eat up, but please do not try to digest it all. Take the best, and ditch the rest. Keep only what is nutritious for your soul.
It may mean only 1 out of 100 things that I say are of value to you. (I would hope for more, but that may be unrealistic.) However, I want you to rid your mind by expulsion everything that isn't the best. Only cling to what makes your heart leap with delight. And be quick to toss out that which sounds harsh and wrong, even if you don't know what exactly is wrong about it ... even if there is scripture used to back it up.
If words at GraceHead.com fall upon you as light as a feather, then I urge you to give them full consideration. When they bum-rush you like a rodeo bull, then I urge you to regard them least of all you read.
There are many things that I do not understand, and God allows my ignorance to persist. I don't know what those things are, so I remain confident even in my stupidity.
So some of the things that I say will hit you so wrong that you will want to question everything that I have ever said. Just realize that those are the things that I don't even know that I am ignorant about ... and God lets me be ignorant about them so that you WILL question me, and ultimately NEVER put your hope in me teaching you all things ... and rather you will find yourself always going to God about them ... and in going to God for answers, all will go well for you.
If I were more practiced in sending you to God, then God may not have to keep me in ignorance so that my vexing notions were not the main thing that I say that is sending you to Him.
I guess this is the lesson that is before us now ... to learn to acquire no following and to send all to the Jesus Lord.
I appreciate your patience with GraceHead.com writers, me in particular ... as we are "still ripening."
My commandment to you is to love those who have wronged you and forgive them, starting with your own self; and be patient with those whom you have wronged. ~ Jesus [Letters from God and His Christ - Volume 6 - Bear Fruit According to the Spirit of Truth]