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.

How about some free jams?

Assigning myself homework

What have I done? I have not updated this blog because I have a full and meaningful life; the kind of life that I hoped I would have back when I was in school. Of course, when one is in school he can have practically no life (especially if he has female teachers) because he is constantly doing "required work" to get a passing grade so that someday he can have that perfect life that comes with a proper education. I say "especially if he has female teachers" because it seemed that at whatever level, whether high school, university, or post graduate, a female teacher/professor's life was her course. I always had more reading and writing from the lady educators than from the men (unless they were effeminate men).
And now look at me. I have taken on a blog that really should be updated if it is going to exist. I have given myself homework - right here in the midst of the perfect life for which I was properly educated. Dang! Well, I have heard people say that things seldom turn out the way you expect them to. So, there you go.

If God is not gracious enough

If I get to judgement and find that God is not as gracious as I thought He was, I certainly hope that I find He is not as holy as I think He is. Because, there has never been a day, or for that matter an hour, when I have looked back and seen that I had lived perfectly God-honoring and holy for that period of time.
If God is not totally gracious and merciful...If the blood of Jesus does not cover each of my sins, confessed or unconfessed...If my faith in Jesus is not enough to have saved me and to keep me...If God grades on the curve, or if there is a sliding scale...Let me be in a group of sluggard at the throne.
Hebrews 7:25

A Whirl

What? No Comic Sans? I always write in Comic Sans. I have had a thought from time to time about what could be on a blog. Now I will give it a whirl. I hope something profound eventually occurs to me. Today is "set-up" day. Perhaps tomorrow profundity.