DISQUS

Austin Williams · 1 year ago

The poem speaks to the heart of the matter quite well.

Thanks again. :-)
L.L. Barkat · 1 year ago

Hmmm... are the two separate (motives and the devoted things)? Maybe if you give an example from your own life, this would help me out.
Susan · 1 year ago

a good thought and post Marcus - it is never good to assume or to think we can read minds. Even when the evidence looks most condemning, we need to exhibit grace and ask, hoping for the best answer. How many people have needlessly been "killed" because someone assumed and attacked instead of asked?
Tom · 1 year ago

Sorry, I hit return too soon. Here's the rest of my thought:

I am always gratified that God is capable of seeing my motives in the midst of my fumbling actions. There's good and bad to that, I suppose, but it keeps me accountable to keep my motives pure. That's not an easy task in this carnal body I occupy.
real live preacher · 1 year ago

What I find fascinating about the entire story from Joshua all the way to the end of Chronicles, is the sometimes ambivalence about worshipping in the high places. Sometimes it is a terrible thing. Most bad kings have that listed along with their other sins. Other times a good king is listed as occasionally having worshipped in a high place. Like sometimes it was terrible and other times not so much.