Understanding vs. Personal Opinion

 

Over the years I’ve learned to ask a lot of questions. At least to those who are truly capable of discussing deeper things. We all have our opinions and beliefs and many cannot maturely disagree as we strive for truth together. I get it. It’s just the way that it is.

For today’s verse, I would suggest that the proper way to read it would more appropriately say this: “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in disclosing his own inner man.”

While all of us contain the possibility of merely speaking our own foolish ways, there is a place to walk where what we stand upon, and disclose, is not merely our own opinion. There is absolute truth, yes. Yet we all individually possess it only in part.

So, what is the remedy? Let us not be a biblically-defined fool. Let us delight in understanding. The Hebrew word for “delight” here is quite interesting. This word is related to an item being bent, or curved. It is also insinuating one being inclined towards something. So let us bend towards understanding. Let us speak truth and not our own thoughts that flow from our own ideas and opinions, apart from Scripture.

And then, let us all receive one another well, in humility, in an effort to labor together. Perhaps then we can arrive at what Father says is true, and not merely a large collection of our own personal, foolish opinions.