1309B: Does This Offend You?
Does this offend you? I wonder how many times He has wanted to ask that of us? We claim to want the truth at any cost. But when we hear it, so often the flesh cannot tolerate the unbelievable nature of what we have heard. God's precepts go so against the grain of the world's concepts that we recoil in disbelief or try to pretend we didn't hear it. In our spirits, if not with our lips, we can be heard to murmur, "This is hard teaching. Who can accept it?"