"The mind moves a little faster than the heart. It's easier for us to intellectually apprehend truth than it is for us to actually embrace it. This creates what Thielicke calls the hiatus between the arena of spiritual growth and what we already know intellectually about this arena (11). In other words, many of us could talk the day lights out of justification, getting the concepts down and the order right, but never really living in the fullness of what it means to be justified."The sad reality for me is that this is often true. So much I read, so much I hear simply flows through the sieve of my mind and never gets anchored down. Parnell has two good recommendations:
1) Pray - It is God who will empower us to embrace what we read and hear
2) Apply - As Parnell states, "We want to be able to take what we've consumed and reproduce it through our faith in action. Nothing is happenstance. God, in his sovereign grace, has made it so that you read and watch and hear all that you ever read and watch and hear."
To God Alone be the Glory
