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I owe everything to God.
For all the reverence I feel for Him, I have an issue.
This is the part where you move down the park bench away from me if we’re sitting too close. Not that you believe in lightning striking but scoot, scoot, just in case…
My issue is His margin for error.
The error: mine. The margin: His.
How should I vote? Home school or public? Do I pray before meals in the drive-thru or sit-down restaurants only?
He leaves a margin of wiggle room for daily choices.
We consult the Bible for clarity. Of course!
But let’s face it; someone could’ve made that book a lot clearer.
Take Jacob’s son Joseph. After the business with the Technicolor coat, then Potiphar and then the cellmate who forgot about him for years, conservative and stalwart Joseph comes into one of the highest ranking offices and does what?
Raises taxes. A lot.
A Bible hero who’s a liberal Democrat?
I have heard that scribes translated original Bible transcripts to make more sense in their cultures. But it’s not as if they changed what was once a complicated Bible into something as simple as say Dick and Jane.
Dick was told to run, Dick, run! He ran. Sally tried to keep up with her big sister Jane. Everyone knew their roles.
But in the Bible, even John the Baptist had his moment of doubt. Sitting in prison, he sent word to Jesus asking, “Are you the one?”
Really?
This after eating bugs and prophesying on Jesus’ behalf? John asked the question, just to be super, super sure he hadn’t picked the wrong guy. The wrong God.
It isn’t Dick and Jane.
An approach we could’ve followed more clearly: good guys on the left, bad guys on the right. Live your life like the good guys. The end.
On the contrary, the characters are all so…real. How possibly can we pick a hero in David when he was the runt of his family or a heroine in Sarah who told her husband to sleep with her maidservant?
If we were marionettes, Dick and Jane might suffice.
Instead, we get a margin. A little leeway where we wish for specifics!
And instead we get…God. The reassurance He gave John. The insight He gave Joseph. The something personal that pushes us from having business with God into having a relationship with God.
In the margin, Job discovered a God that his ears had once heard but his eyes could now see. It was a poignant moment for a crushed man who was buoyed by a God whom he now knew a little bit better.
Given the same circumstances, I might have stuck it to those buddies of his at my next opportunity. Big time. But that’s just me.
And still you scoot, scoot, scoot…
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