Thinking Things Through

As part of my work being a contributor for AlwaysReforming.com, I've been working on a review of Dave Hunt's book from last year, What Love is This: Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God. As I've been working my way through this book, I've been amazed and perplexed by the simply piss poor scholarship (to say nothing of outright lying) that pervades Hunt's book. It's like Hunt wrote his book and was not careful at all to make sure that what he wrote was correct or made any sense.

My life has a tendency to be the same way. The Church is continually unfaithful to her Husband, and I am the worst. I look at the things that I do, and I'm not careful at all to make sure that what I do is right in the eyes of God...I just do what I please far too often. I spend time feeding my flesh while ignoring the things that God has called us to do.

We usually define "good scholarship" as a work that is approached with a great deal of thought and care. I want my life to be defined like that. I all to often am prone to do stupid things (like speak before I think) and sin in areas where if I was more careful to think through what I was doing, I probably would avoid many of the travesties I commit. It's really kind of amazing--I'm excellent at assessing situations and analyzing things...but all too often in hasty decisions I just throw that out the window because fleshing that sort of thing out in my mind takes too much time, and I want to move quickly, quickly, quickly.

There are several events that have made me think of this, but overall I think one thing that I need to make it my goal to do is to think things through a lot more before I take action. Maybe then I can avoid many of my own stupidities.

Luke