An ex-gangster reflects on 2 Peter 1:20, arguing Scripture should be accepted rather than fully understood. He shares a moment when his five-year-old son heard about financial hardship and thought it meant his father didn't love him, illustrating how human understanding fails to grasp infinite spiritual truths.
Wow, this ex-gangster is going deep.
2 Peter 1:20 tells us that no scripture is for interpretation. So it's actually for us to accept rather than understand. And for me personally, like, when I try to understand— so I have a kid. When he was 5 years old, I tried to explain to him, like, mortgage. I had money in my pocket. I was still poor. I was living in the projects, right? My kid was like, let me get bubble gum. And I was like, I can't. I don't have enough money. I don't want to, like, buy him the clothes. I couldn't buy him the clothes. But in his mind, he was understanding it as, Dad, you don't love me. Right? And I'm like, but I do love you. As much as I explained it to him, he couldn't understand it. He was very miserable because of that. Like, we, we're not— we're finite beings. We cannot understand infinite things. So when I, when I learned to stop trying to understand rather and just accept, then I was able to truly be free.
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