for a second:
"The Greek word for
"Almighty"
was really
pantokrator,
the All-ruler,
the One who makes
all things
obey him,
who brings good out of evil,
who compels even
"the wrath of man"
to serve him.,
who over-rules
the devices and purposes of men,
and guides all the processes of history.
That magnificent conception,
set at the very forefront
of the churches earliest creed,
came from nowhere in the pagan world,
but only from the Old Testament,
from the sacred Scripture of the Jews,
which was now also that of the Christians.'
If you are reading here?
Following along?
Thinking to yourselves:
"Well this guys just knows it all"?
Etc?
Hardly.
I haven't
even scratched the surface of Knowledge,
and trust me I know it.
You are feeling boxed in by the almighty.
You can not
and will not escape it.
Psalm 139:5
You hem me in
behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
I'm just a mouthpiece.
Smart people
know how much
they dont know.
And I'm a farily smart guy BTW :-).
I have a lil something from the Max Lucado book
"Facing your giants"
on a shelf of mine.
It talks about King David having been in God's "rarified air" for to long. His head had swelled. Bathsheba etc. I don't read it everyday anymore, but I have literally read this particular commentary 100's of times.
I know what it says.
So I look at it everyday and think:
Stay humble.
It has nothing to do with you
and everything to do with Christ.
And in fact?
When I have been asked:
"Why you?
What makes you so special?"
I have responded:
"Nothing makes me special.
Thats why me/us."
Or as honey has pointed out:
"How many people in the bible
ever thought
they were gonna end up in there?"
Exactly.
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