Howdy,
I know it hasn’t been long since I’ve posted a Sunday Scripture series write up, but Sunday has again rolled back around (a true weekend with Jasper having started school and Sarah’s semester of instructing college courses following closely behind), and I’m liking these Sunday Scripture series posts, even if that’s just to say that I’m enjoying writing them.
Nonetheless (if I were still behind on word count, I might be tempted to write that one as three) it’s more than that, since they are enjoyable because of the topic and material and where it all goes. Truly, what a magnificent place to begin: the Scriptures, God’s Word—and then I get to type my way into an additional subtextual topic. (Subtext kind of like how it means … but also in my made-up-on-the-spot intention of being beneath in stature, authority, and importance—below, underneath, lower than, less than, subordinate to—and I have no delusional confusion about that.
It’s just good to look at God’s Word with you.
I would have gone to my ESV Bible app on my iPhone to pick a passage from my “FAVORITES”—I even reached for my phone—but then I remembered it was dead.
Not God.
Not His Word.
My phone: it won’t turn on right now. It done that a few times before, enough that now I expect that it’ll turn back on eventually, though still I wonder if it won’t and think of what a pain that will be. It’s giving me this scare/inconvenience about once a month since the end of the school year. We’ll see.
Pulling out my Bible—it’s a book, bendy black cover, thin pages, rests in my hands, and opens: flaps when it turns, and is truly quite the item—today … flipping and flapping: 1 Corinthians 1:26-31. Thumbing to that favorite, I knew … it made sense of my subtext ramblings above; my writing and wisdom is not the thing, witty as I want to be.
“For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to world standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, ‘Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord’” (1 Cor. 1:26-31).
No, my writing and wisdom is not the thing, witty as I’m want to be.
Want, that’s the word sometimes. But God’s got it, and He gives it.
I say, write up, but Scripture is high, and this is merely me writing my thoughts down. Boasts in the Lord.
Have a happy and boastful Sunday, wise in His presence—with wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption from God. That’s hallelujah happy.
—Billy
Reading. Writing. Living.
P.S. 1 Corinthians 1:26 could say not many of you are Timothy Keller (at least to the wise part). He’s super smart, read, and clear in his presentations; here’s a fantastic sermon from him in podcast form.
Word Count: 167,587 / On Pace: 165,550 / Year’s Goal: 200,000
Please subscribe to mailing list for the Reading Writing Living journey we’re on and get my newsletter goods. Thank you.