Contemplative Bible Reading

Ephesians 1:8 (New Living Translation)

He (God) has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

God didn’t give me some wisdom or some understanding. Perhaps I am taking this too literally, but it seems to indicate that God has given me, and plenty of other folks, A L L wisdom and understanding.

Whoa! That’s pretty cool (how’s that for understanding the English language? Huh?).

There are several ways to take this little blog post. One is, “I’m okay with God giving ME all this wisdom and understanding. It’s too bad He didn’t give some of it to a few people I know!”

Sorry, He gave it all to them as well. Oh, uh, well, uh, perhaps I should extend some of those showers of kindness (also in the verse above) to others. My receipt of W&U isn’t unique.

Another way to take this is, “Thank you God for giving all these other folks the W&U. I can now turn to all of them for help when I need it.”

Another take is, “God, thank you for the blessings. Help me in my unbelief.”