Bible thought of the day

I try to do this before all the enthusiasm dies down.

This is from my quiet time(very irregular due to the abundance of time i have... ironic).

Mark 7:15
Nothing outside a man can make him "unclean" by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of his body.

Isn't it amazing? Jesus' words... For some pple, it make seem a little confusing, but dont worry.. and he went on to explain in v18 to v23.

"Nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'. For it doesnt go into his heart, but into his stomach and then out of his body.".. "From within men's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean'."

While we think we KNOW what is unclean... our knowledge of what we perceived as 'unclean', actually stops us from understanding what 'unclean' really means.

Many pple try to fathom the maker of the world... why? Becoz we think we are intelligent beings....

Taking this example, on a scale of one to ten (ten being the perfect intelligence of God), i think the supposedly "clever pple" may rank nearer to the bottom than "ignorant/stupid pple".

Why? Let me explain. God knows "unclean" NESS comes from within man (so he scores 10), stupid pple doesnt know anything, hence they are neither right nor wrong, (scores 5), clever pple thinks that "unclean"NESS results from what goes into a man, hence they are on the other end of the scale (hence shd deserve a ZERO or ONE on that scale).

Does that mean that we should be "stupid" and ignorant? No! It means that we should appreciate the power of knowledge that God gifted to us, we should not let it blind us. I am not quoting this as a person who have attained "nirvana" or achieved the perfect ten score, I am speaking from a position of weakness. I am writing this blog to remind myself (or meself as Carragher will put it), so that I will not fall into the trap that is clearly set for me.

Like I have quoted on my MSN... We are sometimes blinded by what we see. Isnt that so true sometimes?