Well just like I promised, I'm going to try doing this as a follow up to my devotions everyday. I can't imagine this stuff is interesting, but it's good to talk myself through it.
Today I came across this in my reading,
PSALM 120
6 I have lived too long
with people who hate peace!
7 When I speak of peace,
they are for war.
David is basically in mourning here over having to live among liars and deceivers. He is crying out to these people that God will take control of the situation. But I keep on thinking that there can be other things we can pick out of this passage.
And I got to thinking about it, I think a lot of people would characterize the Church today along those same lines. Willing to chomp off anybody and everybody's head at any point of disagreement. I'd like to think if Jesus were in a disagreement, he would keep calm and lean on the Bible. Maybe that's something we as the Church should do too.
I question that has been boggling my mind recently, what if someone calls out to God but knows not his name? We use the argument that "the sunrise alone should show the glory of God". I can accept that, but that does not mean that they know his name, or even have the capabilities to figure it out. What if the people in the amazon are doing the rain dance to the God who raises the sun every morning? What happens to them? They believe in God, just may not know his name. I'm going to keep thinking on this.
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