Wednesday, January 22, 2003
"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit," says the LORD Almighty. (Zechariah 4:6)
From my volunteer webmonkey graphic work here... I've heard this verse many times, read it, contemplated it... I consider it one of the most significant verses in the Old Testament. Maybe I'm still unraveling the great mystery of how faith, a spiritual reality, can visibly operate in this material and temporal reality. People today are very much creatures in a material world, and yet we're been granted a sense that life should operate on something higher than just eating, drinking, sleeping, working, and breeding... my life would be a lot less complicated if that was all there was to it. Or as friend remarked in her writing... How sweet it would be if there wasn't an afterworld. If there was nothing more to this materialistic world. If all that is visible is all there really is. If things would be a-okay if I just didn't give a flying f... Is it wrong to wish you didn't care? Hrmph. |
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in?scrip?tion (n-skrip-shun)n.
the facts.
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