If you are reading this, post a comment to this question: How do we make sense of God who seems to order the slaughter of people as being the same God who commands that thou shalt not murder/slay in Exodus 20:13? Is this just a part of God and God's action in the world we will never understand? Do we think this slaying, because God commands it, must have justification or explanation? Is it because this is a composition that was probably written during and after the post-exile, so the narrators are explaining what has befallen them? The bad things attributed to their sinning; the good things attributed to God's reward since this is a culture of reward and punishment? What are your thoughts?
"No one after lighting a lamp hides it under a jar, or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light."(Luke 8:16) Lent is the perfect time to reflect, consider and act on the reality of how we put the light of Christ, the love of Christ that we know and experience, either under a jar or on a lampstand. What actions and choices in your life are the jar and which are the lampstand? How can we move from the former to the latter?
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