Several years ago a Christian friend asked me, Why does God love us so much? I responded in a know-it-all-way . . . Well, because He loves us, He just loves us. But let me now show you how God's Spirit corrected my know-it-allism. I was attending Sunday morning worship, and we were singing about the Father's love, and then the past conversation that had with my friend came back to my memory. It dawned upon me, that my friend's question was not just a question, but a statement of fact, a rhetorical question, in other words my friend was saying . . . . . I'm so amazed how much God loves us, I am awestruck, or I am filled with awe.

Let me attempt to get out my imaginary soapbox.I will give some type of application. We as Christians can be so theologically minded we forget to be filled with the Spirit when handling the Word of Life. We can have the right doctrine, we can be confident that the Word of God is infallible, but without the Spirit of God revealing the Scriptures to us in our daily normal lives whether it be at church or outside of church, our( and I say "our") interpretation of God's Word is mundane. If I am to be astonished with God's Word I must be filled with the Spirit, the Spirit of God must be the teacher, and I should pray that God's Spirit in me would make me sensitive to the wonderful Word's of life, so when I am asked a question about the Word I do not respond in a know-it-all-way.