anyway, three things just jump out at me in this chapter.... hmmm, 3 things in chapter 3 :)
* - when i read about john i think about how i am supposed to be one who is preparing the way. one who is making the path straight. then i think about how strange john was. which when you think about it makes perfect sense. it's not normal for God to step out of heaven like he did. you have to be a little odd to take on this task. but the question is, how odd do you have to be to be someone who prepares the way for Jesus?
* - that leads me to verse 8 - Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. repentance is more than just not doing the things you were doing that you shouldn't be doing. repentance is doing the things you weren't doing. how else do you produce fruit unless repentance is more about what you do rather than what you don't do?
* - that leads me to verse 15 - But Jesus answering said to him, "Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he permitted Him.
i sometimes wonder if i make too much sense to the world around me. i sometimes wonder if i shouldn't be more like someone who produces fruit in keeping with repentance that causes me to live a righteous life that doesn't seem to make a bit of sense to most people i come in contact with...
am an enough of an ordinary radical?
4 comments:
... John the plunger?
i hate making assumptions but i'm going to assume you're asking why i wrote john the plunger.
i guess cause that's what i like to call him. but it comes from the word that is in most of our bibles as baptist or baptizer. the greek word is baptidzo and means to dip, plunge or immerse. the word baptism is a made up word that we got when we transliterated, rather than translated baptidzo. i guess he could be john the dipper... the big dipper... or john the immerser... or john the submerger... but i like john the plunger.
did i assume correctly? did i answer your question?
Yea I also thought when I was reading about how crazy John sounds, and yet they were flocking to him from all over. It also makes me wonder if God used someone as strange as John to be the person right before Jesus to prepare them for some of the unusual things Jesus says and does.
I don't know about being radical and different as John, but I do think about not being in agreement with the majority of society and what it deems to be entertaining/important.
Yep, dean, you answered my question! I'd never heard that term before.
Glasseschick- Most of the old testament prophets did things that the rest of society percieved as strange. They couldn't have warned people about the error if their ways if they were just happily going along with societal norms.
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