What is your response when information or an idea is presented to you that is beyond your understanding, experience, knowledge and comprehension. We all handle it differently but four ways to receive a new and difficult concept are to dismiss, deny, enquire or embrace. Dismissing something means to ignore it altogether, not even bothering to give it a second thought or to finish hearing it out in the first place. Denying refers to arguing against using only our own opinions, experience and the information that supports our argument. Enquiry looks further into the matter, investigating both sides of the story with an open mind in order to discover whether or not this new thing is plausible or not. Embracing means that this new idea is immediately accepted, trusted and implimented.
When it comes to spirituality, dismiss, deny and embrace are common but enquiry is often not a response that many consider a viable or attractive option. Perhaps it is a fearful thing to think that we might be wrong and that we might actually change our mind and our life in the process of our investigation. How do you respond to the unknown?
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Ecclesiastes 11:5 NIV
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