Sunday Sweetness

The family across the street is gone, moved out over night. Brings to mind the phase, "fly-by-night". There is much to be said for those who live cheaply and travel light. The older I get, the more I realize, less is better. Yet change does not come easily. Perhaps some day it will be forced upon us. Until then, my clutter grows.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. ~John Piper

A Thought to Share

To answer why do people misinterpret scripture, such as 2 Peter 3:8? There are those who do not want to believe in God except as a nice cozy way to escape eternal damnation. In the mean time, they want to live any way that they choose, not according to His standards as set forth in the Word of God. This kind of a god is not the God of the Bible.

Our God is a God that speaks to us at the end of the ages and warns us, "Throughout this time God is efficiently at work sending them wandering off to believe a lie so that all [of them] might be judged for not believing the truth, but rather choosing lawlessness willingly. 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12.

God is a God of complete choice, even to allow people to believe whatever they chose. People are free to put any meaning to Scripture that they choose. We are cautioned, however, to "work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Philippians 2:12. This does not mean we can work our way into heaven. It means we need to be very careful in the way we understand what God is telling us.

Then to formulate another question to meet the intent of "Answers to hard questions", What is God really telling us in 2 Peter 3:8?

Is it not teaching us that God existed for so many eons in timeless eternity past that a thousand years is merely as a day as time passes from one millennium to the next? It is not a very old or ancient God we serve, but a timeless God.

Humor

Courtroom on Record - Actual records of court proceedings

Attorney: Will you tell the court your area of expertise?

Expert Witness: Forensic Medicine.

Attorney: You examine dead bodies?

Expert Witness: That is correct.

Attorney: Did you examine the body of the victim?

Expert Witness: I did.

Attorney: Of course you checked to make sure he was dead before you began?

Expert Witness: I beg your pardon?

Attorney: You checked for a heartbeat, if he was breating, blood pressure, or whatever you do, yes, or no?

Expert Witness: No.

Attorney: Then there is a slight possibility he was still alive before you started the autopsy?

Expert Witness: No, there was not even a slight possibility.

Attorney: How could you be so sure without checking?

Expert Witness: Because his brain was sitting in a jar on my desk.

Attorney: Well, is there any way a person could live without a brain?

Expert Witness: It would seem so if he was an attorney!

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