May 7th: Deuteronomy 24, Song of Solomon 4 & Acts 18-19

First of all, Song of Salomon. Wow. I guess the nice thing is that most kids that read through it will have no idea about the imagery and the poetry. Wow, Song of Salomon 4:13-16, wow.

Acts 19 has something really interesting. Take a look at verses 11-20. If I was going to make up something... If I was going to tell a bunch of fictitious stories, I might include a bit about the inanimate articles of a holy man that actually healed people. That's pretty cool. But what is so outlandish, it had to have happened is the next bit (13-20).

There were these seven brothers. They're chillin, drinking sweet tea watching CNN and they see that some dude, used to be named Saul now called Paul is doing some crazy stuff. They turn to each other and say, "Let's get in on some of this noise!" So they go down to the local nutters house and try to cast out some demons in the name of Jesus and Paul.

This is where it goes from a normal "make-a-flannel-graph-for-Sunday-school" to over the top "it-had-to-have-happened-crazy." Here is exactly what it says:

"And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded. And this became known to all the residents of Ephesus, both Jews and Greeks."

Not just wounded. NAKED and wounded. Injury to insult. At what point does dude number seven not see the fact that Crazy is taking people's clothes off? Seriously. I love it. You can't make this stuff up. Imagine this happening at church now.

(Oh yeah, by the way, this is in your Bible too.)