Misunderstood

I certainly hope you read and enjoyed my last blog.  If you did, then I even more hope you are fluent in the language of "Sarcasm", as the blog was written heavily in that dialect.   I would certainly hate for anyone who does not speak Sarcasm to think for any part of that blog that I meant the opposite of what I was trying to say and misunderstand my meaning.

Ahh misunderstandings... such a sad and dangerous happening.  It's truly frustrating when someone misunderstands you... but what about when you're the one misunderstanding?  And you don't even know it?

This brings to mind a funny story.  A few weeks ago my husband and I were sitting in church.  He always brings approximately 8,000 Bibles.  And so he lays out on the pew his favorite translations as well as the Septuagint and Greek (that last sentence is literal, no Sarcasm speak there).  He also pulls up whatever other translation he feels like on his fancy I-can-do-everything phone.  And so we're sitting in church, listening to the sermon, and he whips out his phone and brings up Bible # 8,001.   The following events had me nearly LOL-ing in church.  You see, down the pew a bit on the other side of me sat an older lady.  She glanced at Jason on his fancy phone, and I immediately thought her judging wheels were turning. "Stupid yougins!  And their stupid fancy phones!  In CHURCH!!! Outrageous!!" I could hear her in my head. 

But I had misunderstood her glance.  Because she then reached in her pocket and pulled out her cell phone.  She looked around slowly and deviously and began.... texting. 

Now I really wanted to LOL.  First of all because I didn't know people that age texted.  Secondly because of her extreme nervous, sneaky, guilty disposition.  She would hide the phone in another page of her Bible and flip back to it when the page on top of it lit up.  Then she'd sneak it to her side where she would type as un-obviously as possible.

The best part was that she couldn't figure out how to turn the vibration off and so every time a text came back her phone would vibrate and she would turn even whiter-faced and glance around quickly as she smothered her phone.

HILARIOUS. 

But this is a smaller thing, so it's easy to giggle.  These types of misunderstandings can become truly sad.  Think about this on a bigger scale... someone misunderstands someone else's actions and then basis their actions on a misunderstanding.  And so people without knowing it jump off cliffs cause they think that's what Joe Smith did, when in reality Joe wasn't even near the cliff.

The question is... what am I misunderstanding?  What are you?  What blanks are we filling in... the wrong way?  What sins am I... are you... committing because we are looking at a false reality?

You see, the only true truth... the only for-shizzle... is God.  We need to be careful of basing things on what other people believe, think, say, do.  Because if we are not basing our beliefs, convictions, practices, and decisions solely on God, the Holy Spirit, the Bible.... than maybe we've misunderstood.

And that's not funny.