Food for Thought

Francis Frangipane writes:
It is quite difficult to break the power of religious self-deception, for the very nature of faith is to give no room for doubt. Once a person is deceived, he does not recognize that he is deceived, because he has been deceived! For all that we think we know, we must know this as well:

We can be wrong

If we refuse to accept this truth,how will we ever be corrected from our errors?

As I look back over the course of my life I wonder how many times I thought I had arrived in my thinking about a particular subject, only to find sometime later I really didn't know the half of it. After all how can we agree with Isaiah " His understanding is inscrutable" if we have it all figured out. God's ways are not our ways thats why we are reminded not to lean on our own understandings or to be wise in our own eyes. How much of God have I missed out on because He did not fit my understanding. The pharisees missed Jesus because he didn't fit there thinking, and so many men and women today miss God for the same reasons. Who is God that He should have to fit our man made boxes of religion and theology. Sure I believe God has ordained and put into place a certain order to life and how He relates to man, (i.e. Jesus) but our been there and done that approach to God all but shuts the door on the wonders of the King of Kings the Lord of Lords. We would be better off containing Niagara falls with a thimble than to try to comprehend and draw conclusions on all of the ways of God. But how many theologians today present there dogmatic versions of God as complete truths with no thought that they may not hold all truth. In reality we have drawn many religious boxes that we try to force God into. When in fact God is very claustrophobic. He does not do boxes. So what am I saying?
I am coming to understand that I really don't understand nearly what I thought I did 10 years ago. And in order for me to come to this conclusion I had to realize the truth about what Francis Frangipane states in the quote above. I could be wrong, No not wrong I don't think I have been wrong in all I have believed I think I have been only Half right. I have held a myriad of half truths about God and his plans for us as sons and daughters. When I let go of my ways and seek Him and His ways so much of that Child like wonder returns to me. After all Psalm 103:5 says "who satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle."