Living the Christian Life

If anything, I think that the Bible asks us to keep so busy as to not know what each of our hands is doing. This way, we would be too busy to worry about being boastful or not performing enough charity; we would just do it as a consequence of always being in focus within the present. Like a kind of life meditation.

To the ancient Hebrews, the past was in front of you and the future was beyond/behind you. The future is like a hazy horizon, while the past has already occurred and you can reflect on it; making it in front of us, so thinking of the future isn't possible, only the past and present and we use both of these to create the future.

 

I also find this to be a interesting post.

I think some people are more instinctively Christian than others, they're the ones who seem to have the truth written on their hearts. They do the right thing, not because it was some thing they learned or because God might be watching but because that is just naturally what they want to do. They use the Bible mostly just to fine tune what they already are doing naturally.

As for the rest of us, the Bible is there so we can beat ourselves over the head with it, so we can get it half right.

As for saving the world God has that handled, in fact sometimes I think God would have straightened this world out long ago, if he wasn't lovingly allowing us to help him.

 

I suppose I need to learn to be more understanding as well. It's surprising to me that people don't just know. I have a hard time believing it.