Good morning on this mostly relaxed day of a long weekend that many will enjoy. Knowledge is thrown about rapidly today, and some mornings the knowledge of a person's opinion may not sit well with my breakfast. Today is one of those days. I read an opinion based on what must be a raft of ignorance this morning and the weight of that knowledge bears down heavily upon me. However, there is a brighter side to it - we live in a nation where we can voice our opinions, no matter what they are based on, without fear of some Gestapo-like organization showing up to beat down the door of our home and drag us off to the dungeon. Social media is nearly fearless, perhaps too much so sometimes, in our land of personal freedoms.
Taking a view from the other side, I realize that what I write could bear down heavily on someone too. As the Holy Spirit convicts the world of sin, a person reading this devotional by accident may even hate me for writing about God, Jesus, living under the love of God's salvation, or looking forward to that eternal kingdom on the renewed Earth. An opinion or a belief is a powerful thing to throw out there! I don't want to hurt anyone with words, but I do want them to know that a way has come to bridge that dreadful chasm between God and man. And that is the whole point of stating our beliefs or opinions. We want someone to know that we feel that way.
So, before I bring out the writing guns and blaze away in the cybereal world, I let the weight of knowledge tamp down the anger a bit. I slow down, take a breath, and realize that the freedom to write an opinion and be wrong in another person's view is a wonderful thing we enjoy. Praise God our Father that He doesn't force everyone to have only one correct opinion on every issue. Imagine 7 billion people all with only one opinion on something - how dull would that conversation be?
God bless you on this Independence Day weekend!Bucky
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