A Tangled Mess
8 Mixed motives twist life into tangles; pure motives take you straight down the road. (Proverbs 21:8) "Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything." (Colossians 2:8) Big words and intellectual double-talk are merely a smoke-screen for people to attempt to dazzle us with their intelligence. I have learned that "intelligence" really is not all that it is cracked up to be! Some