Monday, October 09, 2006
None of that absentee Father stuff
Several times this week, I have been reminded of how my Heavenly Father is so unlike most earthly fathers. We want our kids to grow up. God wants us be always like children. We would sometimes like to find a place to just hide for a while. God, our Father, is always available. He treasures our company, even when we are so unlike him. Jesus said, "Do not hinder the little children from coming... Anyone who comes must come as a little child." We try to teach our kids to be independent. He wants us to know that we are dependent on Him. When we are "finished" we will look exactly like His Son.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Efficiency in following Christ
A few observations about the shooting in Nickel Mine, PA:
I only saw one Amish person speak to a microphone. It was a woman who said that the man who killed the little girls was just doing what he had been taught.
The next thing I noticed was the high-powered news folks with no one to talk to...no one to try to draw out some response of misery and hopelessness, because the separation from the world practiced by the Amish is real.
I heard an "expert" on the Amish say that they are very efficient in dealing with evil and good within their own society. Now that is a very flattering statement from the secular media. The only reason I would like to have seen some Amish allow interviews is so the lost world and the secularized followers of Christ could see how efficient dependence on Jesus can be.
In our moving about yesterday, we met a couple of Amish wagons on the Texas highway outside of Beeville. I commented to Judy that they probably did not even know about the meanness that had taken place in Pennsylvania. They were involved in what God had for them to do where they are. How efficient!
Perhaps the world would be more open to hearing the message of Christ if they could see, not how we can make it look like and fit into the popular culture, but how efficiently the Christ-life is regardless of the culture around it.
I only saw one Amish person speak to a microphone. It was a woman who said that the man who killed the little girls was just doing what he had been taught.
The next thing I noticed was the high-powered news folks with no one to talk to...no one to try to draw out some response of misery and hopelessness, because the separation from the world practiced by the Amish is real.
I heard an "expert" on the Amish say that they are very efficient in dealing with evil and good within their own society. Now that is a very flattering statement from the secular media. The only reason I would like to have seen some Amish allow interviews is so the lost world and the secularized followers of Christ could see how efficient dependence on Jesus can be.
In our moving about yesterday, we met a couple of Amish wagons on the Texas highway outside of Beeville. I commented to Judy that they probably did not even know about the meanness that had taken place in Pennsylvania. They were involved in what God had for them to do where they are. How efficient!
Perhaps the world would be more open to hearing the message of Christ if they could see, not how we can make it look like and fit into the popular culture, but how efficiently the Christ-life is regardless of the culture around it.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
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