You can’t make a silk purse of out a sow’s ear.
How funny that sounds to us! A pig’s ear for a purse? We laugh, and that’s the point. It’s supposed to be a ridiculous idea. The contrast in concepts is to illustrate the absurdity of taking something common and ordinary, and using it to create something of the finest quality.
Years ago, charlatans claimed they could transform lead into gold. Yes, lowly lead into highly prized gold. It never worked. Not once.
We can’t listen to “feel-good” doxologies and think we’re modeling our lives after Jesus. The Word is our source of truth. As we’ve said, we aren’t going to get a silk purse if we start with a sow’s ear.
Proverbs 21:28 says it like this:
“A false witness shall perish: but the man who hears speaks constantly.”
Our “false witness” is the teacher who says what we want to hear. It’s feel-good theology. Here are some examples:
“Society has changed from Jesus’ day, so let’s pull out what we want to use and ignore the rest.”
“We have to feel good about our religion and make everyone around us feel good about it, too.”
“Everyone wins, and everyone is happy.”
“Hurray, Christianity! Everyone goes to heaven.”
Yeah, right! Truth in, truth out. When we read the true words of Christ, our moral compass remains fixed on Jesus. The man who discovers the clear and present truth of the written Word will speak the validity of Christ without pausing to determine if it suits our nation’s current moral trend.
Let’s pull back the glitz and glamour and see if we find Christ in the words of our teachers. Let’s see if they’re made from silk or a sow’s ear. Let’s see if they have the truth of Christ in their sermons and lessons; or if we’re missing something, finding instead a theological sinkhole that’s been glossed over by the feel-good ambience of happiness-based Christianity.
What we get out of our Bible is what will come out of our mouths. Let’s make it the truth.
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