Have a good look at any of the renegades in the Bible and you see this trait again. Jacob, Samson, Solomon, (1000 women in his life and not one of them gets their name in the good book), Rahab - they're not really the people you'd expect to find ina who's who of the most Holy dudes on the planet.
Yet the One who is above all other contenders picked a bunch of misfits to pass on glimpses of the truth. Watched a lot of The Nativity Story movie again last weekend and it's an amazing moment when Joe holds up this tiny baby covered in goo and you remind yourself this is the Big Man himself, disguised as a child who'll die without the next feed from his mother and some old clothes from his dad.
The other thought I wanted to throw out is one Ive been musing on for a while and featured in a book called The Road Trip - that I reckon God lived on the earth for a good few years when he first made it. Or if not lived here had a holiday home. I reckon it's true cause the Good Book notes that it was a few centuries before people started to Worship God. Why? Why the change? Well Cain and Abel took offerings to the Boss and knew beyond doubt that one was rejected and one accepted. Maybe they walked to his house and met him. And if you think that's daft let's not forget that this is a Creator who walked in the garden with the first people and made 'em clothes out of the first sacrificed animal. So there ya go.
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