20 March 2012
Bearded Daughters
Episode 4 of Lost in Space, where our faults are no longer hidden. It seems that when our inside is suddenly our outside, we are not so attractive. More than our looks, as we advertise our sins, people cannot help but notice, and take note. Clearly seeing our faults keeps us continually thinking of them, with destructive relational consequences.
Thank God our insides stay where they belong. Forget the aesthetics; we would eventually adapt to our bearded wives and daughters. Rather, it is a great mercy that we can meet and greet without being confronted with our own failures, able to develop relationships that eventually are stronger than the sin within us.
08 February 2012
Left, Right, and Wrong
Micah 6:8
He has told you, O man, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To do justice,
To love kindness, and
To walk humbly with your God.
The religious and political right focus upon justice, making sure we believe what we are supposed to believe and do not do whatever we are not supposed to do. Rules dictate. This justice is used to protect God, keeping Him and His people sacred.
The religious and political left focus upon kindness, allowing us to believe whatever we want to believe and do whatever we want to do, as long as we are nice about it. Freedom dictates. This kindness is used to endlessly extend God, defining Him and His creation such that all is sacred (and therefore, nothing is).
The right are blind to doing right to the over-extenders. The kind are blind to being kind to the over-righteous. Neither seems cognizant of their hypocrisy, sufficiently humbled by out walking with God
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