Worship. Family. Vocation. In the ancient world, these three things were the pillars on which the plane of ‘life’ rested. They gave definition, boundary, and, perhaps most importantly, identity. The same is true today: Who/how we worship, the family of which we are part, and the job or career we’ve chosen are what we often use to define us (we’ll have to discuss how far we have(n’t) come since ancient days some other time). But with these three life-pillars, I think we can more easily relate to one of my all-time favorite stories in Scripture. It’s found in John 9–you can click this link or just follow along from here: Jesus is walking with his disciples when they come across a man, begging, who has been blind since birth. One of his disciples ask why this man was born blind and Jesus’ answer was a paradigm shifting, “So God’s work can be displayed.” And then Jesus heals the man. Pause (more…)
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