TOO SMART?

Are we too smart for our own good?

Pardon me while I go an another "rant".

The last few years I have become so extremely 

tired of "dead" churches.  Oh, some of them have

a lot of programs going and make a lot of noise.

But they are like the church at Sardis where 

Christ said;

"I know all the things you do,

and that you have a reputation

for being alive - but your are dead."

(Revelation 3:1b NLT)

When was the last time you went to a church where

the sick were being healed, the blind seeing and the 

cripples walking?  I know.  There is a popular teaching

going around today that all of that stopped with the

time of the Apostles.  BUT THAT IS NOT TRUE.

Anybody willing to read outside of their own little

church circle can find that signs and wonders and

miracles still take place different places in the world

today.  One example.

There is an evangelist that is dead now, but just a

few years back when I was younger he was having

thousands of people healed of their sickness, blindness

or cripples healed.  I admit, back then I did not pay

any attention to him because - I did not like his looked.

But apparently God liked the way he looked.

But as I read back about a lot of the signs and wonders

that have taken place and still take place I note that

many of the times these are in areas where the people

are, could we say, simple and uneducated.

O.K.  You have got your doctorate.  Well, go and 

heal somebody.  Heal a cripple or blind person.

You might want to take your credentials with you so

that the person you are healing knows how qualified

you are to do the impossible for them.

I am beginning to think that the truth lies in a 

truth that Jesus pointed out a number of times;

"I tell you the truth, anyone

who doesn't receive the King-

do of God like a child will 

never enter it."

(Luke 18:17 NLT)

I am thinking that we are letting our brain get in

the way of a simple faith from the heart like a child.

"Stop deceiving yourselves.  If

you think you are wise by this

world's standards, you need to 

become a fool to be truly wise.

For the wisdom of this world is

foolishness to God.  As the 

Scriptures say,

'He traps the wise in the

snare of their own cleverness'

And again,

'The LORD knows the thoughts

of the wise; he knows they are

worthless'".

(1 Corinthians 3:18 - 20 NLT)

God, please give me the simple trusting 

faith of a child so you can work through

even me.