I'm constantly blown away by God's concern for the sojourner, the fatherless and the widows. Throughout the Bible, that has to be one of the major themes. As far as things that have stood out to me, I would rank them in this order:
-Remember the past. Remember the things God has done.
-God is extremely jealous for your love.
-We need to take care of the orphans, the widows, and the foreigners.
I wonder how much we've failed in these things. Sure, we thank God for what he's done. And I suppose as Christians, we're OK not making idols out of wood and stone... but that whole taking care of others... we're not so good at that. I wonder if the American dream has taken the place of that here in America?
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i think our idols come in the form of wires, screens, and little plastic cards with magnetic strips.
ReplyDeletethat horrible, horrible American Dream. it's like a seductress. Or, better yet, it's like that short from Monty Python's "Now for Something Completely Different" where the women entices the milkman into the house, up the stairs only to lock him in a room with a bunch of other milkmen, left there, hidden away, doing nothing more, contributing nothing, "some were very old."
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