I read it in the newspaper what I have heard so many times. Something to the effect of putting the cookies on a lower shelf where everyone could reach them.
And we accept this very unbiblical thought and practice.
Compare this silliness to the soul searching, mind stretching, heart bowing search for wisdom and truth in Proverbs 2.
Proverbs 2:1-5 ESV My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, (2) making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; (3) yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, (4) if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, (5) then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Pardon me, but how can we possibly consider this “cookie nonsense” in view of texts such as this?
I know. It seemed right. Oops.
Or how about thinking of the cookies on the lower shelf in view of Isaiah 55.8-9?
Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. (9) For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
This is a reflection on the state of Christianity even among those of us who would die over the issue of the authority and inspiration of Scripture.
We try to close the gap between God’s thoughts and our thoughts instead of bowing before his divine instruction.
And we end up with religious cookies instead of the vision of God.
