Ignorant Intelligence – Among Us – Small Thanks – Lame

To jump the gun, I have decided to use another daily devotional going forward. I was coming up with too many summaries like “Lame” for the one I was using. Maybe not the authors fault, but definitely no longer for me. It seemed like he had a deadline and used any old idea that was close, but maybe was not letting God us him in the process.

I have a person in my life who made me use the “Ignorant Intelligence” phrase. He is a “smart” guy with good credentials, but he focuses on the wrong things and does some things I do not see to be consistent with what God would seem to have me do. This is all my perception, but with my limited view, it is what I can conclude. I was advised to what I would paraphrase as “give him some rope” and that is what I seem to be doing. I ask God daily to make my path known.

Small Thanks. No idea where that came from, but it gives the impression of doing a great deal and only getting a negligible benefit from the outcome. I liken this to the “feeling” we get sometimes when following God. I want to follow God to please Him, and yet have to continually tell myself it is not for my benefit, but His. Any “thanks” we get should not be looked on as “small”, but as icing on the cake. When I wake up with a headache, I am just thankful to have woken up at all.

Among Us. I apparently was not very diligent about doing this if I only had four notes for a week, but I may have been out of the country without my books. I want the good things in my life to become habit and I have to remember that “failing” to take notes does not mean that I neglected time with God. He is among us always and I need not do anything but listen or pray to relate to Him. The wonderful thing about having a Christian relationship to God is that we always have access to Him through Christ and we can continually live in His presence.

Short and sweet. My mentor might even finish this one.