Friday, September 07, 2007
"The Prophets", volgens The Message
Ben ik weer eens... 't Is enorm lang geleden, dat wel, maar ik weet niet wat voor excuus ik daarvoor moet maken. Daarom maar direct los met wat ik je wil laten horen...
Sinds een week lees ik weer volgens het One Year Bible Online-rooster, waarover ik je al eens eerder schreef. Morgen beginnen "we" aan de profeten, en daar hebben Eugene Peterson en z'n mannen van The Message een prachtige inleiding bij geschreven:
One of the bad habits that we pick up early in our lives is separating things and people into secular and sacred. We assume that the secular is what we are more or less in charge of: our jobs, our time, our entertainment, our government, our social relations. The sacred is what God has charge of: worship and the Bible, heaven and hell, church and prayers. We then contrive to set aside a sacred place for God, designed, we say, to honor God but really intended to keep God in his place, leaving us free to have the final say about everything else that goes on.
Prophets will have none of this. They contend that everything, absolutely everything, takes place on sacred ground. God has something to say about every aspect of our lives: the way we feel and act in the so-called privacy of our hearts and homes, the way we make our money and the way we spend it, the politics we embrace, the wars we fight, the catastrophes we endure, the people we hurt and the people we help. Nothing is hidden from the scrutiny of God, nothing is exempt from the rule of God, nothing escapes the purposes of God. Holy, holy, holy.
Prophets make it impossible to evade God or make detours around God. Prophets insist on receiving God in every nook and cranny of life. For a prophet, God is more real that the next door neighbor.
En zo is 't maar net! Althans, zo wil ik graag leven...
Grtz!
Rene
Sinds een week lees ik weer volgens het One Year Bible Online-rooster, waarover ik je al eens eerder schreef. Morgen beginnen "we" aan de profeten, en daar hebben Eugene Peterson en z'n mannen van The Message een prachtige inleiding bij geschreven:
One of the bad habits that we pick up early in our lives is separating things and people into secular and sacred. We assume that the secular is what we are more or less in charge of: our jobs, our time, our entertainment, our government, our social relations. The sacred is what God has charge of: worship and the Bible, heaven and hell, church and prayers. We then contrive to set aside a sacred place for God, designed, we say, to honor God but really intended to keep God in his place, leaving us free to have the final say about everything else that goes on.
Prophets will have none of this. They contend that everything, absolutely everything, takes place on sacred ground. God has something to say about every aspect of our lives: the way we feel and act in the so-called privacy of our hearts and homes, the way we make our money and the way we spend it, the politics we embrace, the wars we fight, the catastrophes we endure, the people we hurt and the people we help. Nothing is hidden from the scrutiny of God, nothing is exempt from the rule of God, nothing escapes the purposes of God. Holy, holy, holy.
Prophets make it impossible to evade God or make detours around God. Prophets insist on receiving God in every nook and cranny of life. For a prophet, God is more real that the next door neighbor.
En zo is 't maar net! Althans, zo wil ik graag leven...
Grtz!
Rene
