A mish-mash, a hodge-podge
So here goes a random assortment of thoughts from the last couple days that I thought that I would share.
1. I have been reading through Leviticus the last couple days, and I am amazed at how hard it would have been to live with any sort of faithfulness in Old Testament Israel. On top of that, one person’s blase attitude about their need to properly deal with sin could cause the entire nation to pay. All of the sudden, I am far more appreciative of what Christ did for us and yet I wonder if I am way to careless with how I act.
2. My wife is having our 3rd child tomorrow morning (praise God for His blessings large and small). My son helped me wonder again at God’s creation as I told him that his little sister has been eating mommy’s food for the past 9 months through her belly button. He couldn’t believe it. Wow, God sure made some amazing things that we treat as every day occurrences.
3. This post from First Importance was too good to pass up -
“It had gone on for three years. Three years of patiently teaching and doing good, with only misunderstanding and hostility in return. He was tempted to say, ‘I quit — I don’t need this.’ But instead he said, ‘Not my will but yours be done.’ A few hours later he hung on a cross, nails cutting into his limbs, lungs struggling for air, crowds spitting venom. He was tempted to say, ‘I quit. I’m coming down.’ But instead he said, ‘Father, forgive them.’ He kept going until he could cry, ‘It is finished.’”
- Tim Chester, You Can Change (Wheaton, Ill.; Crossway, 2010), 14.
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