Status Updates From The Parables of Jesus

“O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!”

“Death is an equalizer only in the sense that all die: “golden lads and girls all must, as chimney-sweepers, come to dust“ (Shakespeare).

The older brother [in Luke 15:11-32] would have been quite happy if the property had come home and the son had been lost! But as it was, the reverse was true, and he was unhappy.

God is just the opposite.

He thinks of us far more than of what we can do for Him.

- pg. 74

“He is the light-giver; we are to become light-bearers.“

I thought the idea of being a light-bearer was so beautiful that out of curiosity I looked up that term in Hebrew. Guess what the term was? Lucifer. Egads!

The book of Job contains a passage in which one of Job’s comforters says, “Affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground, but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.“ The image is highly poetic. It tells us that each generation can be compared to a stack of cordwood that is placed on the burning embers of the past.

Fire insurance!

“Sin traps people in indifference so that they often become more foolish about their self-preservation than animals. Geese and other birds will fly south as winter approaches. Rodents will store up for winter. Some animals hibernate. But human beings proceed in a manner they know is foolish and characteristically fail to make adequate provision for their future.“