Paul writes (2 Cor 8.9); “For you know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.” (The references to wealth and poverty must be understood beyond financial wealth and poverty.) Elsewhere we read that Christ… Read more »
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What do we seek?
“No wonder we become unhappy, when we focus on our personal preferences, opinions, and comforts.” (Source unknown) The apostle Paul is clear, “Love is not self-seeking” or “love seeketh not its own” (1 Cor 13.5, NIV, KJV). He wrote of Christ; “For even Christ did not please Himself” (Rom 15.3). In the West, our cultural… Read more »
‘everyone did what was right in his own eyes’
So says the final verse of the book of Judges. The same words appear in 17.6. One mistake is to think that those words describe the entire history of the Judges, which was more than 300 years. A careful reading of the book indicates a more nuanced history. Starting well? The books of Joshua and… Read more »