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:God did not go to all the effort of constructing the mystery to placate your curiosity. <ref>{{bgw|Isa 55:8}} For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.</ref> Until one learns to discern the voice of God from your own thoughts, mere curiosity can lead astray. <ref>{{bgw|Tit 3:9}} But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.</ref> | :God did not go to all the effort of constructing the mystery to placate your curiosity. <ref>{{bgw|Isa 55:8}} For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD.</ref> Until one learns to discern the voice of God from your own thoughts, mere curiosity can lead astray. <ref>{{bgw|Tit 3:9}} But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.</ref> | ||
God uses recapitulation to get attention. If a book fell | God uses recapitulation to get attention. If a book fell off the shelf once, you think it a curiosity. If a series of books fall of the shelf in order, it is interpreted as design; there is intelligence behind the experience. When the Spirit has correlated a word for you in multiple pericopes, you know he is trying to get your attention.<ref>{{bgw|Joh 16:13}} Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will '''guide you into all truth''': for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, [that] shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.</ref> | ||
