Another sermon - as seems to be the way of this blog at present! Life is busy and complicated, and good, and bad, and exciting, and challenging, and (in short) not conducive to getting Blog posts written! So, here's my thought for today taken from these passages (Click for details): Exodus 16:1–5, 9–15, Psalm 78;18–29 Mt 13.1–9 Grace and Meaning In the words of St Paul, or perhaps St John, or maybe St George, or even St Ringo “When I was younger, so much younger than today.” Ah, sorry, couldn’t resist! No, it’s not a tubby boy story – but just a general reflection that today’s story from the book of Exodus used to cause me great consternation. Or at least was one of those parts of Scripture that didn’t seem to fit… I knew the story, the mythological story I am now convinced, of the temptations in the wilderness when Jesus proclaims, quoting Deuteronomy 6 ‘you shall not put the Lord your God to the test’. As I moved into the Anglican Church and got to kno
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I wondered about ultimately obedient. What about Jonah? his 'in depth' obedience is moot at the end. (Yet I cannot condemn him - too much of a good example and too much a good story).
re arguing - Ticciati's "Job and the Disruption of Identity" (at the UVIC library) is a very fine reading. The noun derived from argue/reason in Hebrew is the word referee - a word she develops in the dialogue with Job - altogether a good read. I posted a bit on her work here on one of my old blogs. http://stenagmois.blogspot.ca/search/label/Ticciati
Here is a snippet: But it is in the theme of reasoning (the word groups around a word meaning - to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right and so on) that runs through the poem - that there arises the special role or character of referee. The friends fail, Elihu is indeterminate, God invites Job to be his own referee and he accepts with his hand over his mouth, and Ticciati puts God in this role also.