“Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.”
27“I know full well what you are thinking,
the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,
the tents where the wicked lived?’
29Have you never questioned those who travel?
Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
30that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,
that they are delivered fromc the day of wrath?
31Who denounces their conduct to their face?
Who repays them for what they have done?
32They are carried to the grave,
and watch is kept over their tombs.
33The soil in the valley is sweet to them;
everyone follows after them,
and a countless throng goesd before them.
34“So how can you console me with your nonsense?
Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
ACTS 10:1-23
9About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14“Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
JOURNAL
Job presents the argument that "bad" people live lives that are blessed. He does this to counter the argument that God is punishing him because of "sin". Job's point is that suffering is not necessarily a result of disobedience but rather just a part of life.
God reveals to Peter that he is the author of all things and that something that was once seen as "unclean" can become "clean".
In all of these circumstances and encounters...it seems clear that God is communicating that what matters most is a relationship with God. Regardless of societies rules, traditions, laws, etc. They have their purpose but in the end, they do not trump relationship with God and no person can be judge and jury over what that is to look like. Each souls relationship with God is unique...it is personal and never can fit a formula or a certain mold. Therefore it is ever important to live today for today. My life is unique, today is unique. It has never existed before and will never exist again. It is a gift and therefore should be lived as such.
God reveals to Peter that he is the author of all things and that something that was once seen as "unclean" can become "clean".
In all of these circumstances and encounters...it seems clear that God is communicating that what matters most is a relationship with God. Regardless of societies rules, traditions, laws, etc. They have their purpose but in the end, they do not trump relationship with God and no person can be judge and jury over what that is to look like. Each souls relationship with God is unique...it is personal and never can fit a formula or a certain mold. Therefore it is ever important to live today for today. My life is unique, today is unique. It has never existed before and will never exist again. It is a gift and therefore should be lived as such.
12“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.
~ MATTHEW 18:12-14
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