Thoughts and more thoughts

I got so many thoughts, intentions, wants, desires, needs and anyother description of things to do running around in my head that sometimes I can't think. Man is that akward. But one has been coming to the surface a little more each day. I realize while I am confident in what I believe, and agree with the Baptist Faith and Message, I don't always read the Word to learn.

Sounds wierd doesn't it. Let me back up a little. I believe the Bible is the living word of God (2 Timothy 3:16). I believe we read the Bible to show us God and his attributes (Matt 22:32). I read the Bible for direction and guidance (Psalms 119:105). I could go on, but that isn't my point today.

I have started a track where I have been rereading some scripture and wonder if I loose the power of it with my current understanding of things. As an example when Christ talked with the women at the well I normally don't have the social impact of that meeting in mind. Not only was she an adulter and considered lowly in her village, but she was a Samaritan. I'm not sure what the best modern version of that would be; Baptist and Catholic, Blacks and Whites, or Yankees and Red Sox. I mean they hated each other. Yet Jesus choose to speak with the women and in turn witnessed to the whole cummunity.

Sometimes we forget that Christ was a rebel to the status quo. His statements, while true and instructional, we very bold and flew in the face of most understanding. I pray that I don't settle for what I understand now. That more and more scripture, meaning, and impact will be understood as I read.