Passage Read: 3 John 1 - Jude 1
Meditation Verse: Jude 1:10
Thought
The are many things, events and commands in Scripture that I don't understand. Here is a warning that if I speak against these things, if I dare to criticize or condemn or argue against them, I am more like these false teachers marked for destruction than a true believer in Jesus. If I insist on submitting only to those things I do understand, more often than not, those things are things of the world and the flesh that I naturally and in my natural man understand. Those things are earthly, fleshly and more likely sin rather than anything good. If I only obey these, if I argue in favor of such things, I am still enslaved to sin and in danger of being a false teacher, leading others astray and into eternal damnation.
Application
This is why Scripture teaches me not to lean on my own understanding. My understanding is corrupt by nature and must be redeemed and retrained by looking to God for instruction and doing what He asks--fully expecting not to understand it! In the doing, in the submission, God works His retraining and grants understanding, as I begin to see things from His point of view rather than my own. Of course I won't understand His instructions at the first, so I can't use understanding as a condition of my obedience. Instead, I need to use my unconditional obedience as a means to understand God and His ways.