“Still suffering under the delusion that knowledge is the answer
and the veiled promise that when one moves he will leave all
problems behind and start over again, I decided to attend
Bible college and then graduate school, where the emphasis
was really quite simple: Success rested on my intellect, ability,
talents, and appearance. If all of these could be perfected
in some measure, I would be a success--I would be acceptable
to God and to His people. How I envied the student or professor
who could preach from the original Greek text. If only I had the ability
to speak, to be witty, to be clever; if I could just sing or play an instrument,
then I would be living the abundant life! Maybe if I could memorize
the whole Bible as some had, ask the audience to pick a Scripture verse,
and then quote the one before it and the one after it--yes, then I would
have arrived...Little did I know that I was looking for something seen,
something of this world, something that did not require faith, some type
of magic formula to deliver me from myself and others from the same
state of defeat.”
Excerpts from Sidetracked in the Wilderness by Michael Wells
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