I’m a word nerd. And I’m certain I was born that way. So, you need to just love and understand me. And accept me for the identification I choose for myself. So, there. And I brought it up because of something I found on the Merriam-Webster website a few years ago. And I wasn’t even looking for it. I was actually there to compare a definition of a word I had just looked up on my computer’s dictionary app. But when I tapped into Merriam-Webster’s site, right there at the top, it said:
Word of the Day and Words At Play
No, I’m not kidding. They rhymed their links. And that’s not all. Just a little further down the page, they had a link that said, “Word nerds! Save words plus keep track of all your lookups.” But why make such a big deal out of this? After all, who cares what a dictionary website says anyway? Right?
Well, it’s like your computer and devices know almost as much about you as you know yourself these days. And they serve up stuff you thought you only thought about. And because your mind was already on the subject, you click the links.
It’s artificially freaky, to this here word nerd, is what it is.
Of course, I kid (mostly) about the Merriam-Webster website. I mean, c’mon, they’re a dictionary. So, of course, they’d be all about words. Even the word of the day. And words at play. And word nerds. But there’s a whole lot of that behind-the-scenes “AI listening” going on. Think not? Then either you don’t have a smartphone or computer connected to the internet, or you just haven’t noticed it yet. But that “listening” part got me thinking about a major difference. And I mean the difference between human listening and God listening. And that difference boils down to one word.
Grace.
That word sums up the glory of God and the shortcomings and failures of man. Because God hears what we humans say, every day. And He still offers the Grace of eternal life to anyone with the humility to ask for it. You and I haven’t done, and can never do anything, to deserve it.
But God doesn’t listen to you with an agenda to trip you up or sell you something. He hears with a pure heart. And He wants you to have that, too. So, the only commandment He makes, during this dispensation of time, is to love. Wow, who’d have thunk that my dictionary search, for an entirely different word, would lead to this short message about Grace and Love?
No other doctrine or fable, no genealogy
Compares to creation, with love, cosmology.
So, I turn to the Lord of all understanding
With the goal to do this one thing He’s commanding. Love, brothers and sisters. Love.
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