In the movie "The Last of the Mohicans," there is an interesting conversation between Cora and Hawkeye. Cora is an English woman and Hawkeye, also an Englishman was raised by a Mohican Indian named Chingachgook.
Hawkeye: My father warned me about you...
Cora Munro: Your father?
Hawkeye: Chingachgook, he warned me about people like you.
Cora Munro: Oh, did he?
Hawkeye: He said "do not try to understand them".
Cora Munro: What?
Hawkeye: Yes, and, "do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense".
When we look at the world around us and the rules it plays by, we often shake our heads. Many have tried to make our beliefs, our core values make sense to them.
"This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. " 1 Corinthians 2:13-14 (NIV)
Discipleship comes before teaching, because it takes the Spirit of God inside a man or woman for them to truly accept the truth of God. We are not commanded to convince the world we are right, but to love them as the Father does.
"Hatred stirs up conflict,
but love covers over all wrongs." Proverbs 10:12 (NIV)
