"ONE PEOPLE SHALL BE STRONGER THAN THER OTHER, AND THE OLDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER" - Genesis 25:23b
The Bible from cover to cover is full of reversals. The oldest son is to have the greatest blessings in the Jewish culture. Here we see twins, Esau and Jacob and the youngest gets the spriritual inheritance while the oldest sqaunders it for a pottage of stew. Can it be that we often look at things from the top down when God says his order is just the reverse of ours?
Does not scripture tell us that its the weak who are strong, that the foolish are wise, the poor are rich, and the meek shall inherit the earth. Do we really believe that? Scripture is about reversal after reversal. The great day of the Lord as a day of judgment is suddenly in Acts chapter two a day of salvation. "This is that" but it's not like anything we expected. Death looks like the end but then we have resurrection, the greatest game changer and biggest reversal of all.
When Jesus told parables and stories, the bad guys often become the good guys and the good guys don't look so good in the end. Can it be that when it comes to the gospel of Jesus Christ, we still have things backwards? Discipleship should come before evangelism and not the other way around? Should we not emphasize Jesus Lordship even before a person comes to term with Jesus as Savior? Can it be that the first really shall be last and least and forgotten become the greatest?
The Bible from cover to cover is full of reversals. The oldest son is to have the greatest blessings in the Jewish culture. Here we see twins, Esau and Jacob and the youngest gets the spriritual inheritance while the oldest sqaunders it for a pottage of stew. Can it be that we often look at things from the top down when God says his order is just the reverse of ours?
Does not scripture tell us that its the weak who are strong, that the foolish are wise, the poor are rich, and the meek shall inherit the earth. Do we really believe that? Scripture is about reversal after reversal. The great day of the Lord as a day of judgment is suddenly in Acts chapter two a day of salvation. "This is that" but it's not like anything we expected. Death looks like the end but then we have resurrection, the greatest game changer and biggest reversal of all.
When Jesus told parables and stories, the bad guys often become the good guys and the good guys don't look so good in the end. Can it be that when it comes to the gospel of Jesus Christ, we still have things backwards? Discipleship should come before evangelism and not the other way around? Should we not emphasize Jesus Lordship even before a person comes to term with Jesus as Savior? Can it be that the first really shall be last and least and forgotten become the greatest?
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