To be safe or good?

I remember a few times when i had started reading a blog or a book and thinking "i don't quite like where this is going" or "i don't agree with that" and stopping reading.

What was i scared of?

was my belief or my reasoning about that subject so weak that reading one post/book would turn it around with no input from me.

I suspect what i should have done is read the post and actually thought about what they were saying compared it with what i believed and accepted what was left standing as the best reasoning at the time.

It seems like all around us we're looking for the safe blog, the safe preaching, the safe music rather than the good.

I'll buy this book as its in a Christian book shop, I'll buy this music as they say their a Christian band, I'll believe this sermon as it's from a church in my stream.

Surely there is a better way, surely we should be searching everywhere for what is good and true rather than what is safe. surely this will lead to us being a) more well rounded in our beliefs b) more able to defend and stand up for what we believe as its reasoned as well as faith and c) more interesting as we all won't be listening/reading/watching the same things.

It reminds me of the line in the lion, the witch and the wardrobe when Mr Beaver is describing Aslan (the Jesus character) Lucy (a young girl) asks "is he safe?" Mr Beaver replies "Safe! No, but he's good"

the problem with looking for the good of everything be it books, TV, music, blogs is that you have to go through a lot of dross but if you know what you believe and are willing to hold it up to what you see and hear and look for what is good and true then you just might get to the point where you too are not safe but you're good.

EOM--

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To be safe or good?