I love watching interviews. Good interviews, mind you.
I like the set up of the interviewer getting things from the person being interviewed. I love the dialogue that takes place from time to time. It’s particularly good when it’s not just a set up for an entertainment perspective. Where the things being divulged are insightful, revealing and stimulating – that’s the good stuff right there. Where the answers given are done with excitement and passion that draws you in, that’s splendid material to consume.
Sometimes I get the impression reading the Bible and understanding a little bit about life, that it’s meant to operate like a good interview. Take creation for example. God is the interviewer and He says let there be. In response to whatever He says let there be, there is. His word is simple, the response is glorious. No better is this approach seen then in the purpose of humanity.
God said let us make man in our own image, let him have rule over the created. Then He sets up a garden for humanity and gets the man to nurture it. That in itself is man getting involved in the conversation, seeing what needs to be nurtured and doing so. He applies and the response is splendid.
That’s how the best interviews go when you ask the right questions in the right way and from that erupts a glorious response. That response in itself provokes further leading questions that elicit more spectacular responses.
My reading of life is that God asks leading questions. He knows we’re capable of coming with the answers, because He places the answers in us. His Word contains the essence of the power for the response. All we need to do is engage in the conversation.
So it’s unfortunate that we ignore the conversation from time to time. Mainly because our own conversation with ourselves appears all the more important despite the negligible feedback we get from it. So captivated with hearing ourselves that we don’t see the lack of substantial outcome until it’s too late. Some of our conversations quite frankly are boring. We invest and inflate it with such pomp and circumstance, but it doesn’t take much to expose it for the sham it is. Yet we persist. As though our conversation is of worth.
That’s unfortunate.
Thankfully, though, we are invited to be engaged in the interview. God asks the questions and we get to explore the answers with Him. That’s why I’ve loved church expressions that’s more about sharing what we all have that stimulates the conversation, rather than subjecting ourselves to a monologue. That whole monologue approach I find to be distancing and disengaging.
When there’s an encouragement to engage and explore, to hear God’s word spoken through diverse voices and consider them and then contribute whatever God gives you to contribute – that’s the stuff.
That’s like a great interview. A great interview that goes on for eternity.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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