Contemplative Bible Reading

2 Corinthians 10:4 (New Living Translation)

4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

The writer is telling the readers in Corinth about some of the ways that God has made Christians different (if we accept that). Once different, we destroy false arguments using God’s mighty weapons. We don’t use the human weapons of rhetoric and logic and all that stuff some people study at great length.

We pray. We love. We embrace. Wait, are those weapons? If you want to think of them as weapons, go ahead. They are some of the tools God gives us by God’s power. The world cannot withstand those things. Think not? Look around. Those who followed that poor carpenter’s kid from nowhere Nazareth are still here. There is no earthly reason why that should be the case, but it is.

Hmmm, maybe if we think of it that way. One of the necessary things for me is to accept that God has made me different. I need to act like God made me different. I need to claim God’s promises and live them. Some days I’d rather just throw rocks through a window and spray paint a car. Wrong. Pray, love, embrace, and so on. The tools are there in front of me.