Are we just being IGNORANT?

IGNORANT

 

Ignorant literally means NOT AWARE

 

-ANT on the end of a word is performing an action or existing in a certain condition.

 

So we can see by this word that to be ignorant is to be performing the action - IGNORE!

 

Dictionary.com says Ignore means : to refrain from noticing or recognizing

 

Some say " oh well they did that in ignorance." Really or did they just choose to be in the action of Ignoring the issue, situation, or circumstance?? Ignoring the truth....

 

I think we IGNORE things more than we think...

 

I know I do.

 

That is why it is important to put people in place around you that will shake your vision, shake your heart, shake your thinking....Let God place people in your life that He can use to SHAKE YOU!!!

 

Another thing that I thought of while pondering this word, have you ever noticed how you ignore the ants on the sidewalk because they are so small. That is what we do you know?? We ignore things in our lives choosing to step over them like they are small ants on our path of journey....step on a fire ant hill and try to ignore that!!!

 

Tina was the one who brought this word to my attention the other day. Saying Ignorance is a choice to ignore something.

 

Today I was reading in ACTS 3 and I came upon these verses :

Acts 3:17-19  "Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. (Ignoring the truth the Jesus was THE CHRIST) But (now here comes the truth they ignored) this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

Do you see that lesson:

IF YOU FIND THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING IN IGNORANCE: REPENT AND TURN TO GOD ( ACCEPT THE TRUTH ) THAT YOUR SINS (MISSING THE MARK....NOT SEEING OR BEING AWARE OF THAT TRUTH)  MAY BE WIPED OUT, THAT TIMES OF REFRESHING MAY COME!!! (RENEWING OF THE MIND AND REVELATION)

Let us all begin to see, hear, understand and speak truth --one to another and especially to OURSELVES!

 

F & L'er

Starla