Busyness

So my original goal when I restarted my blogging was to blog on Mon, Wed, and Fri. I already missed Monday. Oh well.

Sunday was a good day. Sunday night we discussed the first 6 chapter of 1 Samuel. Chapter four kind of stuck out to me. In it the Tribes or Israel take on the Philistines and lose. So they go and grab the ark, what they see as the throne of God ensuring to them the presence of God, and then they lose and the ark is taken. It made me think about how we kind of do that in our lives sometimes. We take a particular path in our lives, and instead of asking God if its His will we try to assume or force Him to go our way. Even if our path is a good path this is still the wrong process. There are choices that don't break the commandments of God that are still wrong for us, because they are not God's will for us. Our God is not a list of rules, He is a living God, and we are not called to just follow a set of rules, but to actively pursue the will and desire of God.

Monday and Tuesday I went to the T.B. Maston Ethics Lectures at Logsdon Seminary. They were pretty good. Monday's was about the life of T.B. Maston. Which was very interesting. My only problem was that the man speaking only praised Maston, and it came off as if he had little to no faults in his life. I always feel like a biography is incomplete when nothing is told of their difficulties, battles or struggles. Not to say that we can't learn from another persons success, but if that is all we know of them then they don't quite seem human. I become a little more inspired when I see the struggles people go through and overcome.

But overall the lectures were very good.