Excellent David Powlison Quote

Here is an excellent quote from David Pawlison that I found over on Between Two Worlds.

David is addressing the issues of overly personal application of the scriptures, I especially like his idea of God raising Kings & Queens not puppets - Awesome!

Between Two Worlds: iMonk interviews David Powlison on “Reading the Bible For Personal Application”

But there’s no magic answer to protect us from magical, over-personalized uses of Scripture. Hang out with wise friends and teachers. There’s no substitute for being in a community that pursues wisdom. He who walks with the wise becomes wise. That community will be in part literary – there are many wise, balanced, penetrating Christian books, and many foolish semi-Christian books. Seek wisdom from God – he gives it to us when we lack. Again I’ll say, always read texts in context. And remember that God is interested in raising grownups – kings and queens – not puppets. Grownups have to make hard decisions in difficult, ambiguous circumstances; they have to make judgment calls; they don’t read tea leaves.