In Full Knowledge of Who you Are

In Deuteronomy 31 God told Moses to gather the people, the Levites, and the elders together. YHWH looked down at Israel in the Land of Moab and told Moses to address each group, declaring his knowledge of their character and predicting their unfaithfulness.  He knew them more thoroughly than they knew themselves. He saw their rebellious nature, their tendency to pride and idolatry. He knew that they would reject his commandments and follow their own ways. He knew that they would worship other gods, that they would claim to be the source of their own strength. He saw them for the treacherous adulterers they really were, and he promised to redeem them and love them regardless.

Yeshua has done nothing other than what the Father had already demonstrated, only on a greater scale. He confronted the elders of Israel and showed their character to them.

“And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. But I know that you do not have the love of God within you. I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, on whom you have set your hope. For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
(John 5:37-47)

He knew that they were thoroughly corrupt, that they wallowed in pride and injustice. Yeshua stood before them and condemned their sins in full knowledge of exactly who they were, and all the while he was planning to die for them.

Just like YHWH knew Israel, he knows you and me. He knows all of the despicable things that we do and think and feel. He knows what we have done and what we will do. He knows each one of us down to the minutest detail, and–most remarkable of all–he still loves each one of us and wants us to repent and come back to him and his laws.

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.
(John 5:24-25)

Not only does he know who you are, but he knows what you can be. You can be alive.

Random Thoughts on the News

Common Sense Defended

The study asked thousands of adult children of straight, lesbian and homosexual parents dozens of questions and compared the results. While many questions did not produce statistically-significant differences, the study found major differences in a few categories. Adult children of gay couples were two to four times as likely to be on public assistance, more than twice as likely to be unemployed and more than twice as likely to have contemplated suicide.

A gay blogger is slandering and bullying a heterosexual man who says homosexual parents might not be good for children. What a shock.

A modern American university has determined that this study by one of its professors is completely above board and that he "used sufficiently scholarly methods". Universities usually bend over backwards to accomodate sexual deviants and other politically protected classes. If they couldn't find anything wrong with the study, I'm reasonably certain there was nothing wrong with it. (Unless Professor Regnerus is very well connected. There are all kinds of politics going on in our schools at every level.)

Enemies, Foreign and Domestic

The U.S. Border Patrol is reporting that shots were fired at some agents patrolling the Rio Grande near the border town of Hidalgo.

Even when our relations with Mexico were at their best, the Mexican border has always been a weak point in our national security. We can do something about it, but Washington actively undermines every attempt. I wonder why that is.
Man Likes Breasts

A high school girls basketball coach in suburban Chicago has been placed on administrative leave after writing a self-published book that includes graphic sexual content and an acknowledgement from the author that he has a "weakness for cleavage."

Seriously? This is news? Do these people really think that all high school girls coaches are asexual, homosexual men, or heterosexual women? No wonder our schools are in such trouble: they're run by morons living in a fantasy world. If they really wanted a coach who wouldn't be ogling the players, they would have to do some profiling. After all, it's ok to profile if your goal is to discriminate against white, heterosexual men.

The book is reported to contain all kinds of amoral and immoral advice. This is public school we're talking about. I seriously doubt their real objection concerns non-Christian behavior. I think they actually have a problem with men who don't behave like women. Heterosexual women, I mean. The unintended consequences of the controversy will be that Coach Player will sell a hundred times more books than he would have if left alone.