Shut Your Mouth To Understand

Author

Wes Schaeffer
October 03, 2020

From today’s reading…

This was the answer Job gave to Yahweh:

I know that you are all-powerful:

what you conceive, you can perform.

I was the man who misrepresented your intentions

with my ignorant words.

You have told me about great works that I cannot understand, about marvels which are beyond me, of which I know nothing.” Job 42:1-3

Jeff Foxworthy used to host a show called “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” and Reddit has a popular conversation starter called ELIM5, which stands for Explain It Like I’m 5.

Foxworthy and Reddit understand what it took Job a while to learn: we just ain’t all that smart. As Josh Billings so succinctly stated, “The trouble ain’t what people don’t know, it’s what they know that ain’t so.”

So before you hop up on your high horse today on TwitFaceInstaChatTube and dox someone for daring to like a candidate or a policy that differs from what you’d prefer, ask yourself if you can explain the topic to a five-year-old.

Realizing your lack of infallibility and replacing it with seeking to glorify God by shutting your pie hole will help you see the marvelous works God has created in your life and done for you, which is the only way to…

Stay the course. Keep the faith. Endure.

Now go sell something.