Sometimes I wake up at about 4:00A.M. in the morning, and I have to use the bathroom. I really don't like that at all because it's absolutely the worst time in my sleep cycle for me to wake up and readily go back to sleep. It's as if my alarm jumps ahead an hour and forty five minutes and says, time to get up. However, my body, tossing and turning knows better because it still longs for sleep, and my brain starts protesting as it begins the back and forth deep breathing, calm down, go to sleep, did you remember to do this and that and what does this mean, etc. You know the routine.
Last week I had one such early morning conversation inside my brain, and it went something like this. It's a bit disjointed because that's just how it is. And so my brain said this:
Why do we, of course you know who I mean when I say "we", hold the Ten Commandments( my early morning brain did not capitalized Ten Commandments) so sacred but we (same people) really don't emphasize the commandments of the New Testament that Jesus spoke in red ink like (my awake English teacher brain would say, such as), "Do not overcome evil with evil; overcome evil with good"? Did Jesus say that directly or was it in one of the apostle's writings? I think Jesus said it. Well, wouldn't the world be a wonderful place if we all tried to just follow that one commandment? Then my brain began to flip-flop into breathe in eight times, out eight times, turn on your right side, no the left. Not working. Well, that comes to the question of the definition of good. Oh no, not this kind of brain chatter. Hmmm... Is there a working definition for good in the Bible? I think somewhere along that point, I rolled onto my back and fell back to sleep. Now the thoughts are back in my brain again, and I have homework, but I'm sure there are lots of definitions of "good" in the Bible, and they must tie in with the whole, "the greatest of these is love,". Oh yeah, that's a big one! Put that on your stone pizza tablet.
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Luke 6:37.... We should not take these commandments out of our schools.
Peace. Love, Linda
Last week I had one such early morning conversation inside my brain, and it went something like this. It's a bit disjointed because that's just how it is. And so my brain said this:
Why do we, of course you know who I mean when I say "we", hold the Ten Commandments( my early morning brain did not capitalized Ten Commandments) so sacred but we (same people) really don't emphasize the commandments of the New Testament that Jesus spoke in red ink like (my awake English teacher brain would say, such as), "Do not overcome evil with evil; overcome evil with good"? Did Jesus say that directly or was it in one of the apostle's writings? I think Jesus said it. Well, wouldn't the world be a wonderful place if we all tried to just follow that one commandment? Then my brain began to flip-flop into breathe in eight times, out eight times, turn on your right side, no the left. Not working. Well, that comes to the question of the definition of good. Oh no, not this kind of brain chatter. Hmmm... Is there a working definition for good in the Bible? I think somewhere along that point, I rolled onto my back and fell back to sleep. Now the thoughts are back in my brain again, and I have homework, but I'm sure there are lots of definitions of "good" in the Bible, and they must tie in with the whole, "the greatest of these is love,". Oh yeah, that's a big one! Put that on your stone pizza tablet.
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Luke 6:37.... We should not take these commandments out of our schools.
Peace. Love, Linda
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