Pre-story to set the stage. (and the crowd pulls their pillows into position ...Oh Boy, oh Boy a widdo story!)
My awesome brother Jerome, takes part in my devotional life by sending a verse a day to my Blackberry. I stop read, reread or recognize the text from memory . Lately it has been from the book of Proverbs and he sent Proverbs 23:23 (Thursday )and it read strangely on my Blackberry like this:
"But the truth and do not sell it, also wisdom and instruction and understanding," Do you see anything strange here?????
I responded back with this ..."The problem is found in the slip of the text finger ... BUY not but. Check the next HLFA".
So that you are not too awe fully cornfused, the actual verse (which he re-sent today with the correction): "Buy the truth and sell it not." not BUT the truth.
What is cool about the slip up it reveals the basic reason we - don't hear the voice of God, don't see the miracles of God, and don't enjoy the will of God.
WE CONTINUALLY "BUT" THE TRUTH INSTEAD OF BUYING THE TRUTH.
The bottom line meaning of buying the truth is ...to get, acquire, create, buy, possess!!!
to get, acquire, obtain
... like God originating, creating, redeeming His people to be the possessor .......an ultimate price was paid...covered in righteousness... resulted in Life.
... Like Eve desiring to acquire knowledge and wisdom to be the possessor .......an ultimate price was paid...covered in selfishness... resulted in death.
GOD speaks and we don't buy it ..."but He couldn't mean it could He?"
reminiscent of the words of the deceiver in the garden ...but God couldn't have meant you shall surely die... He knows when you eat the fruit of this tree that you will get to be the decision maker just like Him. But He couldn't mean "You shall surely die".
Instead of fervent following after and seriously acquiring all the truth He will pour our way ... we "BUT" in disobedience ...we want to call it disbelief ...BUT really it is disobedience.
O that there were a heart in us ... that we might give all our energy to acquire His truth ...instead of BUT....
"But" is usually followed by "nothing" ...when we respond to BUT WHAT? ...so sad when He wants to give "All things" ...we will "but away" until we have nothing.
2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes,
that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you;
that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:
BUY though, don't BUT,
HLFA,
Jeff
