Entry Twenty Nine: The knocking on our souls - is fixing our stupidity.

I gather my following beliefs through pondering these verses - 1 Corinthians 20-25.

"20:Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 21: For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22: For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24: but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25: Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."

My word by word, reiterated interpretation of these versus... are as follow:

"20:Who are really the wiser? Who is really the poet? Where and who is the philosopher of this age, this time around? Don't you get it, hasnt God made foolishness of this world already? 21: Don't you see? Mans great wisdom was, and still is wrong, and he does not know God, what we taught ourselves and passed down as "Wisdom", it was mans wisdom not God's. So listen to me now, lay down your hearts, it pleases God through what we see as foolish, to accept what he sees as his wisdom - His true, real, applicable wisdom.

22: The jews thought and think him a giver of signs, a powerful "thing", the Greeks saw and see him as a teacher. 23: But we preach his Christ Crucified (HIS CLIMAX OF GRACE/LOVE). The fact that the devine, the power of God, is love. 23: But listen closely for you misunderstand this too - this great power of Chris is not specific or given to one man, but to all. 24: is to be given to all. 25: Even though the world may see this "power" (LOVE - Kindness, Mercy, respect, and honor) a weakness, it is truth, because God not only spoke it by mouth, but spoke it through action - through the sacrifice of Christ. Now you must see our opinions which reflect otherwise is completely foolish. How ignorant of us! God's will is God's will - much wiser and pure then ours."


What I interpret this ultimately coming down to... is this:

THE ACT OF GIVING GRACE IS LOVE "God showed us his love this way, he showed us how, by showing us first", THOSE WHO NOW KNOW LOVE CAN SHOW GRACE "know his love through his grace, now give it to others", THOSE WHO THEN RECEIVE GRACE KNOW LOVE "the process continues".

He taught the twelve so they could attempt to teach us, and they did, and we continue these teachings to this day - through the ages. Giving us these teachings (all these things which as humans... at the time we didn't already know) was him loving us. If he didn't give us these things, we would still be in bondage by foolish rules and mans own thoughts of "wisdom". But we are not, and this is because of one specific thing which he attempted to teach us, through showing us, more then anything else - Love through grace. He could have easily just let us all sink, but decided not to, instead he decided to pay us that visit, and in doing so he was showing his love through Grace - yes, by not letting us sink, having mercy on our human condition - stupidity.

What personally amazes me is how Christ so bluntly reiterated the messages he taught prior, even in his goodbye he said it again. He confronted us by conforming to something which no God is ever ruled to do, a cultural norm, but perhaps more importantly a mortal idea - sacrifice. He basically said "I GOD, the alpha and omega lay down my life in human form, to SHOW my love, because you would lay down a lamb in attempt to SHOW yours for me - and this is not good enough - wrong". In our modern world it would be something like "I lay down my life, I am taking the hit, so I can save my family, because don't you get it? The bottom line is I love you and wish for you to love me, yourselves and everyone else!". When you put this in context, "I am God, but Im going down to your level, to save you, to show mercy on you, to give my graces upon you, so you may know me which is love" - its a powerful thing.

IN doing so he pushed the culture, he moved it and brought it up to date, up to his wanted way of thinking. No longer did we give lambs as sacrifice for others and ourselves, we no longer used them as a means of saying I love you, or I'm sorry (Because apologizing takes the form of love). Instead we were shown to give ourselves, sacrifice ourselves. Our time, our food, our everything, and give it to others so they could feel this real version of "love" and be freed to do the same.

If anyone is in fact reading this and finds it agreeable, but still asks the question "how", well ill explain from "how" I saw it. First know, you have no super natural power, no higher intellect or intuition which can "spawn" the "transcendence" of God - the gift of "grace". Nor can you magically manifest the personality of God - love. For some of you, to put it simply, you can not create these things which God has already given, you must only accept them. Just like man can not "create" a cell from nothing, only see it, accept it, and attempt to re-engnere what has already been given to them as material - already exists. That is the magic, it must be given, the act of grace, but through what we now understand as love, and it must be received, so it can be given again. When you become apart of this ageless process will you know the power of Christ, (the power of what he did), and truly know the Father who so desperately wanted to do it.

Finally, when you are told to look back on your past, all you shall recall is a blur, but this is however... only if you accept the gift, and you can only accept the gift if you give something in return. Only love is worthy of giving for grace and only grace is worthy of being given for love, but because we have neither to begin with, unless it is given, we can only give ourselves. Our wills are corrupt, selfish, twisted things. But even so, in giving this up, this slime, God views it as our beautiful wonderful jaw dropping gift to him. This is the trade in for grace and the understanding of love, what he ultimately right now wants. A great deal indeed.