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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
- The Dilbert comic above comes from http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-08-05/, just to give them credit.
- God's creation is very neat. Science is interesting. Food is delicious. Business is intriguing. It's curious that God created so many things that can distract from finding genuine fascination in His divine Word.
- Interview trick questions are fun to try to come up with good responses to. For example, what is a good response to, "What are some of your weaknesses?" "How have you dealt with a difficult manager in the past?" or "What salary would you expect to make from a job like this?"?
- Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express was very, very good.
- Books in the Bible are a product of divinely-inspired human authors. The Christian doctrine of inspiration does admit that the personality of the authors enters into the writing. This is to mention the difference between Isaiah and Jeremiah. Read the first couple of chapters of each of those books. Isaiah seems to be saying that Israel and Judah are bad, and that God's wrath will soon come. Jeremiah describes that God's heart is broken, and expounds on why Judah is bad.
- Jeremiah is very applicable to this day at a practical level. Yes, the book is ultimately about Jesus, but at a practical level, the way Jeremiah describes the people of Judah, could easily be described of people today. Indeed, Judah's sin was different in that they were God's chosen people, and God revealed Himself to them in a way differently from how He revealed Himself to the surrounding nations, while Canada's problem is not that Canadians have rejected their people's God. They've rejected their Creator and their Saviour.
- To clarify the above bullet, the Lord in the Old Testament was related to Israel in a way that was different from how He was related to the rest of the peoples of the world, but there was also a way that relationship was the same. It was different in that Israel was His chosen people. The Lord made a special covenant with Israel. This was similar to foreign nations allying themselves with Dagon, Molech or the Baals, though they are false, non-existent gods, while the Lord was the one, true, living God. The Lord, though, is also Creator. In this sense, the nations have this in common with Judah. Canada does not have a God exclusive to it, as Judah did, but Canadians still reject their Creator.
- Jesus never sinned. Consider then, "And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, 'So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak'" (Mt. 26:40, 41). This seems like a patronizing statement. Yet, it was not sinful. Since it wasn't sinful, it probably wasn't patronizing. Most people would probably be offended if a friend said it to them. The take away is probably that people are too quick to be offended. Any other interpretations?
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