Ziklag F5.11 - "Rely on Yourself..."

SOS: Good judgment, trust and scale.

SOS Discipline - Daily Proverb and Red Letter Reader

Good judgment begins with the plight of the poor. cf Pr. 29:14

Trust is not a matter of fact. cf Mt. 7.21

The compounding of scale is deafening. cf Sun Tzu 5.8

From the Archive

from Broken

He wasn’t told, “God has given you answers to your questions. Look, here they are written in his Word.”

He wasn’t told “The idea that Jesus is based on Roman sun worship is a joke of pseudo-scholarship. Here, let me show you what Scripture says . . .”

He wasn’t told, “Luther wasn’t perfect, but he wasn’t a Nazi either. But Jesus of Nazareth **was** perfect, and there’s good historical reasons to believe it. Here, let me show you what Scriptures says . . .”

He wasn’t told, “Yeah, sometimes I find it hard to believe that God is there because it doesn’t always feel like He is. But here, let me show you what Scripture says . . .”

Nope. For Punk Rock John, like countless other American Christians, the only answer he was ever given was just another warmed over, squishy-spiritual platitude of “Rely on Yourself.”

From Today’s Stack

from The Book of Dead Shepherds

A certain man went down from a great city to a lesser one. But he fell among thieves! They stripped him, wounded him, and fled, leaving him for dead.

Now, by chance, a certain priest took the same road. But when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So also, a politician, when he arrived, looked, considered, and passed by on the other side.

Then, a certain untouchable, on sojourn, came to the place. When he saw him, he had compassion. He went and bandaged the man’s wounds, pouring on medicinals. He set him on his own mount, brought him to a house of healing, and there saw him taken in and paid for.

“Whatever more you spend,” he said. “When I come again, I will repay.’

Now, which of these two men, do you think, would you like to live beside?