Too long since I have written here. After the blessing of the week away at Mount Hermon, it seems that many other things got in the way of just some daily time with my Bible and in prayer. There are so many things (good things) that have been happening all around me that I so desperately want to share with everybody. Our new Worship Pastor, Joy Saquing is doing a fantastic job. He and his wife Kim are still working at getting up to speed, but that can be expected. Complicated by the fact, that not only does he come…
Obfuscate Me!
Don't let the big word confuse you. There is a definition, and that is "To make so confused as to be difficult to understand or to render indistinct or dim." That's what the government is trying to do with the great all-American Healthcare reform known as HR3200. If you think you are going to get better health care, just think about doing your taxes. Do you understand what all those blanks refer to or what the words mean or what exactly you should put there? I was so obsessed with all the retoric coming from Congress and Mr. Obama that…
Understand This!
That could well have been Elihu's loud cry in the preceding chapters, but as he continues in chapters 36 and 37, his words cut! They reach down to the common denominator that man is not in charge. We are just caretakers. What we have is not a right but a gift. What we are is not because of what we have done, but because of what He allows. Elihu seems to have seen through the words that flowed back and forth between Job and his friends. The "old guys" had rambled on and on, and the kid reminds them again…