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A Modern Parable of Arrogant Ignorance
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/hgccTXB-daw
TEXT: I’m not very adept at technology. I’m getting better, but to illustrate, let me give comparable examples of ineptitude from English classes. Yes, that is plural, sadly.
In 4th or 5th grade, I won the “Most Improved Reader” award. So, I must have been good at English, right? Let’s see. In middle school (then called Jr. High), my English teacher said, “You have improved more than any other student this year.” So, I must have been doing well, right? (Notice I did not say, “doing good!”). That year my report card received a “C”. Let’s move on to college. I decided to right my English term paper while attending a party. Let’s just say I would have loved getting a “C” on it! Decades after college, I told my English professor, “You might be surprised to hear, but I now enjoy writing and have books published.” I had hoped for encouragement. Instead, he sardonically said, “You’re right. I am surprised.” What’s the point of this?
Let’s get back to the computer. Regularly, little things remind me of a mistake I made decades ago. I started deleting “things” because I didn’t know what they were, therefore, they must be superfluous. Can you deduce what happened to my computer? Thankfully, a dear friend, Weldon Adair, who was a genius at computers, fixed it. As a warning he told me, “I’m keeping a file on my computer especially for you incase you ever do this again!” What’s the point of this?
Contrary to conclusions forming in your head, I am not trying to prove I am an idiot. Instead, consider all the above a parable of sorts: “The kingdom of heaven is like someone who wrongly thinks they know more than they do and keeps getting into trouble due to arrogant ignorance. He who has ear to hear, let him hear.”
Now look at your life. What are you leaving out because you don’t understand a scripture or think it is not important? What doctrine doesn’t make sense because you handpick which verses to believe and reject the others? Sin, ignorance, and arrogance, make it so we don’t work right because God designed the right way for us to work as individuals, families, and congregations. We need God to keep improving and not become despondent by our failures, even if we are just now getting C’s. Keep allowing the Spirit to improve you. We all need to become better “readers” of God’s word and stop deleting His files. None of us have gone far enough to become the most improved “me”!?
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