A little girl had saved her allowance money for a birthday gift for her mother. After considering her options as to what she could buy for $2.00, she and her big sister took their place at the cashier's counter. The little girl carefully laid two new ice trays on the counter before the cashier.
"That will be $2.13 sweetie" the cashier said.
The little girl didn't understand...
Her big sister informed her, "you have to pay taxes, that's why you need $2.13"
Looking even more perplexed, the little girl furrowed her brow and said: "We live in Ohio, why should we have to pay Texas?"...
Like this little girl, sometimes we hear, but we just can't understand. Her recent geography lessons biased her understanding.
In the same way, our assumptions about what is true can often bias our understanding. This leaves us perplexed by the truth when we hear it.
The writer of the letter to the Hebrews was concerned that the expectations of the Jews had biased their understanding of who Jesus Christ really is. After laying out a foundation for his argument that Jesus is not created but He is the eternal Son of God, he writes:
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let [them] slip.
Hebrews 2:1
There is a danger for each of us that our biased understanding of the world blinds us to the truth. When we do not or will not recognize the truth, we will suffer the consequences of missing it.
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord...?
Hebrews 2:3
This may be a good time to ask ourselves if our worldview leaves us perplexed as to what is really true.
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