I confess joy every time you have followed up one of my posts with one of your own, revealing powerful Scripture to underscore the point being made and further underscoring the point with excerpts from Reformation authorities.
No doubt I have inadvertently caused a lot of angst with other posters over the years by using the terms "leaning" and "musing" to weight my own posts.
Musings are merely my personal comments on a subject. They are offered with few, if any, Scriptures and are intended only as "food for thought" in the discussion. They are not important to me and shouldn't be taken that way by anyone else.
Leanings on the other hand refer to understanding I have received in following the Spirit's leading (Romans 8). They are usually very short on narrative and very long on Scripture. The salient part, the powerful part, is the Scripture. Whatever narrative I offer usually just connects the dots in the same path I was led to receive them. To me, they are important though they may or may not be important to someone else.
If you have any suggestions for better words to weight my own comments, I'd love to hear them.
I think
musings and leanings
are fitting to my own experience.
Given my personality . . . they seem like rather muted words but . . . that’s another issue.
Perhaps I’d call musings my ponderings.
And leanings, my convictions from prayerful podnering.
But you’re the gracious saint and I’m the . . . something in a china shop goading the other uhhhhhh donkeys to uhhhhh learn how to throw pots from the Master or get the well out of the china shop.
I think, for me, convictions . . . are my convictions. I may FEEL like others ought to share the convictions but they don’t rise to the level of clear and plain Scriptural doctrine, per se. I’m rather comfortable having my convictions rejected as not orthodox . . . at least most of the time. LOL. . . . though I may pontificate as though they are priceless gems on occasion. They do usually come with some experience with Scripture and life of Holy Spirit having confirmed them a several times.
Ponderings are more postulations, hypotheses . . . things on the theological shelf waiting to see what of them God confirms in this time/space dimension and/or eternity.
THX
LUB
I apologize if I overreacted to your comments. I appreciate the spirit in which they were given.
Nope. Your explanation is both welcome and sound. 8~) Hold fast the form of sound words...in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." -- 2 Timothy 1:3,13-14"I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day...