July 15. 2006 Itseems like one of the lord's favorite & recu! 19 themes to expound on during my personal times with Him is the story of the blind men & the elephant. It's amazing how much one can get out of one simple story like that... The trigger wey a problem in our relationship caused by - let's say in. 9 on our view of our (piece of} elephant being the right one, the proper one, the only one. the same cv God's, which is bevically what pride of salt-righteousess amount to. The neat thing is, the lord never fails to give the solution in His eupovurey of the Devil's often hidden workings in our life. OF course, the first step is to be wi 1g to vee the problem for what it is, and to believe the lord for what He hey to say about it. That's probably the toughest part. Next. He says. “move over to the other person's position, atep inside their shoes & touch & feel & see the elephant the way ey do." flad piece by piece. person by person, you get to explore a whole lot more elephant than you thought there ux. One particularly funny part about this levvon wey the part where He derctibed that you can be sitting in front of the wrong part of the elephant. say. one of his lev pretty party (I of course, imagined his but}, and let thet influence your point of view negatively... Pevonally. | think it's probably one of the major purposes in life. to find out fogether what the elephant really is like. There are way too many mysteries, things God simply seems to hare chosen not to let us Know, which lead to the conclusion that instead of wanting to reveal them all to vs in one big supematural flavh, He wanted us to crawl around in the dirk, along with the other blind men & find out & experience the elephant by grabbing & touching: Picture them/us: “Hey. fli, come over here, this thing feels mighty fuany! Oh, and it tickles your face!" Maother one hollers: "1 you must come over here, if you hold on to this trunak-shaped thing, it will move and lift you vp. this iz funt” Another one squeals: “Oh, no, this funny snake thing is biting my nose, and it's autul wel...” Thus we could all have a lot of fun exploring the elephant together & maybe eventually even discover ways to tide him. Thus, the weapon of vaity seem to be highly conducive te the ability of ene may conclude, ing above is cool, but fi seems to be able te take you even higher... Alaywoy. | thought I'd just share with you my li