Oratio, Meditatio, Tentatio

Prayer, Meditation, Temptation. So perhaps there are such things as good mistakes, which I am sure Sara Bareilles believes in. Maybe not good mistakes, but not so bad ones. Luther spoke about 3 things that helped him really understand the word of God- Prayer, meditation and yes also temptation. Paul backs him up scripturally on this.

It was uncanny to read more of "sovereign joy" only to come to the point where Luther expresses his beliefs that serious preachers have an obligation to learn Greek. A sign if anything.

Moreover Luther plugs language learning as the scabbard to the sword. I thought- there it is, I always knew language was good for something!