{"id":385,"date":"2008-01-27T23:01:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davintosh.com\/2008\/01\/27\/foolish-disbelief\/"},"modified":"2008-01-27T23:01:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T05:01:42","slug":"foolish-disbelief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/27\/foolish-disbelief\/faith-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Foolish Disbelief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/farfromhome.jpg' alt='farfromhome.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffh.net\/\">FFH<\/a> has a song called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianlyricsonline.com\/artists\/ffh\/one-of-these-days.html\">One of These Days<\/a>&#8220;. The lyrics talk about how things will be different &#8220;one of these days&#8221; when we get to heaven&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of these days I&#8217;m gonna fly<br \/>\nOver the mountain<br \/>\nOne of these days I&#8217;m gonna ride<br \/>\nOn the silver lining<br \/>\nOne of these days I&#8217;m gonna witness<br \/>\nAll I&#8217;ve been missing<br \/>\nOne of these days<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A line in the last stanza of the song really hit me this morning&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of these days I&#8217;ll finally be<br \/>\nIn a place where there&#8217;s no more need<br \/>\nNo more pain and no more grief<br \/>\n<em>No more foolish disbelief<\/em><br \/>\nAnd all the joy there will be<br \/>\nWhen at last we finally see<br \/>\nOne of these days<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When we reach heaven, so much will be made plain, so much that&#8217;s misunderstood will be explained. <\/p>\n<p>A lot of people take reject Christianity &mdash; and God &mdash; because things don&#8217;t work the way they think things should work, or because of some bad experience they&#8217;ve had with a particular person or church, or worse; because of the bad experience someone else had and shared with them. They accept falsehood as truth without fully understanding, and dismiss Truth&#8230; foolishly. I did it for years, and probably still do to some degree.<\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t know exactly what the writer of that song meant for that line to mean, disbelief based on false assumptions is what I&#8217;d call &#8220;foolish disbelief&#8221;. We now see things imperfectly through eyes of flesh, but then, &#8220;then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.&#8221; All things will be made clear, and all our questions will be answered. We will see things as God wants us to see them; not the colored by our experiences and narrow field of vision. We will see Truth, and foolish disbelief will be banished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FFH has a song called &#8220;One of These Days&#8220;. The lyrics talk about how things will be different &#8220;one of these days&#8221; when we get to heaven&#8230; One of these days I&#8217;m gonna fly Over the mountain One of these days I&#8217;m gonna ride On the silver lining One of these days I&#8217;m gonna witness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith-worship","category-the-deep"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}