Speakology

At City Challenge and Creation Festival last summer I was thinking about how as a society it seems that we are using our brains less. What spurs this to happen is laziness and technology. Now I'm not downing technology, but what it can do to you if you let it. The brain is insane! Its power and capacity is huge! If we stop using our brain more and more and become ruled by our technology and laziness we will soon be unable to learn. Learning and coming upon new knowledge by what you already know is one of the great things we can do. I'm saying this to give you the reasoning behind my decision to start talking in such a way that surprises people and pretty much forces them to think. This method isn't dependent upon correct English, actually sometimes I use wrong wordage to try and get people to think. That is ultimately why I use weird words and wording in my blog posts. I don't know if my way of talking does what I want it to do or even if I use it, but in a way it defines me. Language does that, its one reason why we think about southerners and northerners differently. Their language defines them on the surface.

One who had the most impressive way of talking was Jesus. Jesus asked a lot of questions when he was on earth. Jason Ostrander wrote a book about 99 questions he picked out of the Bible that Jesus asked. The thing I found that was so cool about the way Jesus asked questions was how they were perfect. Obviously they would be perfect, but its just so cool how much you can get out of His questions. No one could have asked the questions like He did. One quite interesting and great question is in Matthew.

Matthew 19:17 "Why do you ask me about what is good?"

In this verse Jesus was having a conversation with a rich man who had obeyed all the commandments, but knew he was still missing something. Jesus told him to sell his possessions and give to the poor. However, the man couldn't do that because he loved his possessions to much. You see there was one thing getting in the way of the man focusing on God. That one thing was his possessions. We can't let the things of this world get in the way of our relationship with God.  However, the point Jesus was probably trying to make in verse 17 was that we need to focus on God more than doing good because He is most important. Knowing and loving God is more important than obeying all the commandments.

From that question asked by Jesus in Matthew you can find a couple of points you can take from it. The question is quite different, thought provoking, and what Jesus has said stays true forever. The words that Jesus spoke while on earth offer so much for us to learn from. God's way of speaking is and was very profound. I can't explain how perfect God's words are because they are not on the human scale of perfect. Why don't we use His words more often if the are so perfect?