"The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand it, we must act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God."
~Soren Kierkegaard
Boom.
I have been struggling lately with trying to "find my purpose" and trying to "discern the will of God" so as to direct my future. I'm kind of dumb, just so you know. The purpose? It's right there in that book. The will? It's also right there. There's nothing to translate (figuratively, of course, it's been translated already) in order to merge it into my life. I think it's a matter of translating my life into it.
~Luke 9:23-24
I really complicate things too much.
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