Interlude
Interlude
If you want to be an encouragement to hurting people, try to see things through their eyes. Be humble enough to admit that there might be other points of view. Job’s three friends had a narrow experience of life. They held fast to their dogmatic assumptions and refused to budge. In a letter to some people who disagreed with him, Oliver Cromwell wrote, “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
Someone has defined fanatics as “people who can’t change their minds and won’t change the subject.” Samuel Johnson once said of a man, “That man has only one idea, and it is wrong.”
There is always something new to learn about God, the Bible, people, and life. Let’s be good learners—and good listeners!