Today´s reading:
OT: Numbers 14, Numbers 15:1-16
NT: Mark 14:53-72
Ps: Psalm 53
Pr: Proverbs 11:4
Today´s notable verses:
The fool says in his heart,
“There is no God.”Psalm 53:1a (NIV)
Having spent a great deal of time with the group of people constituting one of the great bastions of secular humanism – scientists and scientific academia – I really believe that the so-called athiesm of this group is less a genuine belief, and more of a willful denial; calling oneself an “athiest” becomes a facade, allowing such person an appearance of plausible deniability of his own conscience. I don’t know which is worse: this person, or the fool whom the Psalmist says actually believes (“says in his heart”) that God does not exist. Perhaps, the latter is the end result of the former: someone willfully denies the truth for so long that eventually he genuinely believes the lie with which he has replaced it.
Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath,
but righteousness delivers from death.Proverbs 11:4 (NIV)
I don’t ever plan on being wealthy – emphasis on plan; if it happens, it will be by God’s will, and not my own effort – outside of my attempts to be a good and faithful steward of that with which God entrusts me. I think someone who would attempt to rely on money to save him on the day of wrath does so because he has placed his wealth before God. But a life of righteousness – in wealth or poverty – saves him from facing God’s wrath altogether on that day.
The One Year Bible Blog asks:
What verses or insights jumped out for you in today’s readings?
Starting to sound repetitive, but: see above. 🙂