Joshua 15:1-16:10
Yawn. Didn’t read any of that apart from the weird way that Caleb used his daughter as bait. Maybe I should have checked ahead before I praised him so highly yesterday...
John 1:1-28
It’s like a jumbo jet has landed in my garden. It doesn’t even get close to fitting and it has squashed my shed flat but everything should be OK as long as we don’t turn the engines on. I had felt pretty stretched and challenged by the 3 Synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) but then, out of nowhere, the hulking monstrosity that is John has just been thrust on me from above. I really don’t know where to start and even as I edge around the introductory concepts - the Word being God, everything being made through him - I feel like I’m getting wedged between the fuselage and the garage. How can my brain cope with the idea of the Word being in “the beginning”? I struggle to understand that there was a time when I wasn’t yet born, let alone the universe. But, at least I’m standing here. I’m least I’m giving the Spirit a chance of penetrating my soul with even the tiniest increment of these enormous, explosive truths. At least if I keep repeating over and over “the Word became flesh... and we have seen his glory” then my brain may at some point recover from its does-not-compute system overload and begin to work out how to start putting some of this into practice. And, at the end of the day, it’s quite fun having a jumbo in the back garden; it certainly gets the neighbours talking.
Psalm 53:1-6
"O God restore the fortune of your people." That's a cool thing to pray!
