Garden of the LORD

Garden of the LORD

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Word Confusion

“To the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.”
                                                               Colossians 1:2

Word confusion.  I have a serious mind block concerning certain words.  It happens often and I have to concentrate really hard, especially when I am writing, to be vigilant regarding this enigma of mine.  For instance, I almost always confuse “than” and “then”, “there” and “their” and “you” and “ewe”.  Ok no never on that last one.  Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.   

I do this kind of thing a lot.  Sometimes it’s harmless.  Other times not.  Especially when it comes to people’s names.  Yeah that is where the harmlessness of this confusion thing takes a back seat.  People can be really sensitive if you call them by your pet’s name for instance.  I mean I was kind of close.  Your part of my family, we all live in the same house so I inadvertently called you by our dog’s name.  No big deal.  Really.  People can be so touchy. 

There is one word in scripture that I continually have confusion about and low and behold there it is in verse two of Colossians.  Faithful.  You see there are two definitions of faithful.  One is showing up on time, every time.  And the other is to be filled with faith.  I confess I really like to confuse these words though.  Why? Because it is so much easier for me to be faithful, showing up on time than to be filled with faith.  I can do the faithful showing up on time thing way better than the actually believing I can show up on time. 

Don’t get me wrong.  I have absolutely not a hesitation when it comes to being filled with faith for other people lives.  It’s mine that I have an issue.  So if you ever find me encouraging you to believe God for your life you can know that it is genuine.  I have absolute confidence in the authority of scripture and I believe Every. Single. Word of it.  God says what He means.  I have no doubt!  I just have trouble believing He means it for me.  Sometimes.

I wish this word faithful found in Colossians 1:1 was the show up on time word faithful.  But it isn’t.  It’s the filled with faith word.  I am a work in progress. 

That’s all I have to say on this.  Sigh.




                                     

4 comments:

  1. Praise the Lord. Faith is what God wants me to have in Him. Faithful is always what & who God is for me. God I pray fill me with more faith for you, I will always need more. Thank you God for Arlene helping me with my faith!

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  2. God is faithful and always on time. :)

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  3. I can recall a time when my faith was based on second hand experience. In other words, I believed in God's faithfulness because I'd seen his mighty hand at work in others. But, nothing compares to the many times, I had to" practice what I preached." I truly had to be filled with faith to even pray. My LORD... he continues to reveal himself beautifully! He was, is and will be faithful !
    Thanks,
    Ev

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    1. Thanks Evelyn. Really miss your wisdom. Your ability to see my life through the eyes of faith never ceased to bless. Your friendship is a gift.

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