There's a great passage here in verses 4-10 that speak to mind renewal and following Christ as opposed to the ways of the world. I'd really like to spend some time on this topic as I feel I really need to learn more about it & get closer to that "full assurance of understanding" back from verse 2. Verse 8 of this passage reads:
"Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ."I got to thinking about some of the traditions of men & the principles of this world and how deeply they are ingrained in our culture. Evolution, individualism, entitlement, relative truth, postmodernism, and a host of other wikipedia-search-worthy ideologies are married to our culture and often run contrary to the word of God. I'd like to go a little further with this in the next blog or 2 but from this morning's chapter, I can see that if we focused our academic & psychological efforts on our search for God & His truth (this goes back to verses 2-3) we wouldn't be so prone to the errors of modern philosophy. Again, I'll try to further with this but for now my prayer is that we can learn to truly be satisfied in the fullness of God & not seek, like the Gnostics, deeper knowledge beyond Him as if He's not sufficient to meet our needs.
1 Timothy 6:6, "Godliness with contentment is great gain" and Philippians 4:19, "And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus."We'll dig deeper later. As always, your comments are always welcome
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