Remember Amalek
As the children of Israel were leaving Egypt and headed back towards the promised land, you can imagine that the site of them created quite a stir. There will at least a million of these people, many different ages, traveling across the terrain, and, as you probably can imagine, some would want to take advantage of them.
Amalek was one such nation—a band of marauders that preyed on the weak in the group, gathering what they could from the children of Israel and being a regular nuisance.
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Following God Like Abigail
What’s interesting is just how much like sheep people are. Sure, we all want to think that we’re unique, different and open minded (or at least some of us do) and we like to point at others that are “brainwashing their children” or “closed to other possibilities” but in reality we’re all this way. On the grand scheme, we all operate based on a worldview– a way we perceive things around us– to make sense of the world.
When it comes to the church, this worldview is further refined by the doctrinal statements, teachings and traditions of the given church that you’re attending. The problem is that churches can fall into ruts, where they simply do what they’ve always done because they’ve always done it that way.
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Lessons From Joshua
In regards to doing great things for God, I think that one of the reasons that we don’t see God doing the great works that He did of old is not that He’s changed or not that He’s silent, but that we really don’t believe we need him.
At what time in the world’s history has there been a culture with such prosperity as that of the United States. Now, I’m sure there has been comparative prosperity at different times, but at what time has the poor among us had so much– so much that they would rather remain jobless than find a job!
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Strength Through the Uncertain Times
It’s easy to trust God in the good times– where everything is going well, and it’s all going according to how you’ve planned.
It’s the same thing that the Devil said to God about Job– Job loves you, God, because you bless Him. In the next few chapters of the book we see the Devil take away everything that Job has, and yet Job refuses to “Curse God and die” like his wife suggests.
What do you do when trouble strikes your house and family? Do you get angry with God or do you recognize that He has a greater purpose than you may know?
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How Do You Explain the Miracles?
One of the things that is interesting when you get to talking with Atheists is that you can quickly get taken into talking about technicalities and playing “on their turf.” Now, I can appreciate the works of people like Vox Day, who can write a book eviscerating atheists with pure reason. However, we do not need to resort to playing on their turf, because their turf does not represent reality.
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?
…Because the dark doesn’t really exist.
One of the things that I muse on from time to time is the whole way we represent the world around us, and how accurate or inaccurate our descriptions are. Here are some others:
- Dark: Absence of Light
- Cold: Absence of Heat
- Vacuum: Absence of Air
- Evil: Absence of Good
I’m sure you can name others. What’s interesting is that when you get to that last one. I have to admit that the last one is one I struggle over. Is evil really the absence of Good– or a degree of missing good. And I have to agree with it.
And here’s why:
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What if You Could Turn Back the Clock?
A standard plot device in a lot of films is the idea that time travel is not only possible, but necessary in order to for the protagonist to right some wrong that has happened in the past. Each film either focuses on the tragedy that must be repaired or the sacrifice of those doing the traveling and they blur the lines of reality to make us believe it’s possible. There even have been television shows focused entirely on the concept. Usually, at the end of the show, we find that the wrong has been made right and the guy gets the girl.
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