You belong here
The sign outside the Y says "You belong here, you just haven't signed up yet". Everytime I see it I think of God. How He wants people to belong with him but not everyone signs up to be with him.
Biblical rules
I watched the talk by
AJ Jacobs about his "Year of Living Biblically"If you are going to watch it, watch it now so I don't ruin the ending for you!
He spends a year trying to follow all the rules in the Bible.
He concludes that is is not possible to keep all the rules in the Bible.
He's quite a personable guy and I really enjoyed the talk. I agree with him that it is impossible to keep all the rules in the Bible.
However, where he goes after this is where we part in agreement.
He concludes after this that because you can't keep all the rules in the Bible, you should "pick and choose" which ones are applicable and good to keep.
I disagree which being able to pick and choose what rules to keep. I think the fact that it is impossible to keep all the rules in the Bible is designed to show us that we need God. No matter how good or kind we are, we can't ever be perfect without God's help. The rules point us to God. That we need a saviour to take us to the level that God sees us through instead of having God look at us with the rules (where we will obviously fail). Our success depends only on the blood that Jesus shed. It's not about us, it's about Him.
Crappy gifts
I just read Sammy's blog
"Jesus likes crappy gifts" and the line that resonated with me was "I wish I could just delight in his delight of my life. "
To just rest in the fact that God enjoys us.
By doing that it can take our eyes off where we are and what is wrong and just focus on what is right with Him.
