i'm so bogged down w/ stuff to do. today i realized that i have like 2 weeks until the mission trip which i have yet to get money for. anyone wanna help? ha. i haven't read anything lately for my workshop for camp. the idea is still running thru my head but not my blood yet.
today i took my current read, The Irresistible Revolution, to work. i'm glad i had time to get into it. i forgot how amazing this guy is. he's made me question so many things. things that i think may change my thinking. and what's sad, is that it's a lot of things that i've made fun of quite vocally in the past.i mean, this idea of war has...i don't understand it. i think i'm seeing that there may truly be a difference between the God of
the Old Testament and the New Testament. but, i think i may be against war.
the author of this book says how he is opposed to war and how God says to love your neighbor (being the 2nd commandment to Love the Lord Your God w/ all Your Heart). and i always thought this meant the kid who picked on you during school or the guy who cut you off in traffic. not the man who blew up your home or attacked your country and killed thousands or shot everybody at your school.
as i read this book i seem to be hearing more that the Old Testament way is no longer the way God works. Jesus spoke Love. i mean, think about it. God would take 200 people and destroy an army of 100,000. wars aren't like that anymore. i don't think God is behind any war. the wars back then you knew it was God - i mean, look at those odds!!! come on.
vengeance is mine says the Lord. "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord."No, "if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads."Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." - Romans 12: 19-21 / Deuteronomy 32:35.
i suggest that everybody read this book who is tired of sitting around in their Christian life.
so i'm still making up my mind of some things...sometimes we mess up and fights are inevitable.
there is a lot of jumble in my head.
but i love this book-i'm compelled to love and live like Christ.
~POST SCRIPT~
so, after talking w/ the drabni's i have been confused more but i think i disagree a little more w/ him. war has been used in good cases since the New Testament. think of the Halocaust. so....i do not think that the war in iraq is wrong but i won't say that it's right. i do not know the main points behind it - i mean the true objectives. but war has been used for good. Sadaam wasn't a good man. i think he means more that war is only wrong if it is for power and that alone.
we've had a goodnight discussing this book and his views and thinking things thru. it's fun doing this.
i still completely recommend this book.
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