Aphorisms from a Monday Morning Run

Dig the well deep so it doesn't go dry.

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Dig the well deeper than it needs to be so that it doesn't go dry.

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Preacher/teacher, may you dig much deeper this week than you'll ever need to for those 20-40 minutes next Sunday morning.

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Preacher/teacher, may your study be the vastness of a submerged iceberg and the teaching/preaching itself be the mere peak of the great mass that can be seen.

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If you are not stretching yourself to learn deeper, more challenging things about God, what does that say about your god?

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Yes, "we have received...the Spirit Who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God" - but how does He tell us these "things"? "...which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit" (1 Corinthians 2:12,13). Through the agency of His teachers of His Scripture in His congregation.

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Teach, O Father, through the Son, by the Spirit.

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God, Who is three in One, Himself brings us closer to Himself through the unity of another three: the teacher, the disciple, and the Scripture.

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Have you ever noticed how many times Paul prays for a congregation to increase in knowledge of God (Ephesians 1:17,18; 3:19; Philippians 1:9; Colossians 1:9; Philemon 6)? Why don't we pray like that?

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The Bible does not place knowledge/study/teaching in opposition to the Spirit or love. We do that in our laziness and our desire to define "Spirit" and "love" ourselves.

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Nobody says to a child, "that's a new word for you" or "why are you using such big words?" We expect children to learn and use new words. At what point are we supposed to stop learning and using new words, like "aphorism"?