“I verily thought with myself…”~ Acts 26:9
I am a strong advocate of, as they say, “Thinking outside the box.” But I must qualify my statement; you must first do a little thinking inside the box. If not, you’re no better than an “arm chair scholar.” And who wants to take advice from one who has never been out of his or her easy chair?
Solutions seem to be received more readily from one who can say, “I sat where they sat.” The blessed Lord Jesus was such a person. His life was not spent in isolation from civilization, but in participation with humanity. As the old timers would say, “He dwelt smack-dab in the middle of mankind.”
To see life only from the outside leaves one heartless; but to see it only from the inside, helpless. I like what G.K. Chesterton said in his little book, “Wit and Wisdom.” Commenting along the lines we have been discussing he writes, “I would always trust the old wives’ fables against the old maids’ facts.”
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