MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

this morning, as i listened to Krysta Tippet interview *** Zornberg who is a Scottish, Israeli woman scholar and author, I'm inspired to post about the sad turn of events when Moses rashly killed a man in his human desire to help his fellow Hebrew brothers. i would like to write a book or at least an article sharing and exploring the thought that some of these events in the Bible are not exactly the fulfillment of God's will even when they are done by those who love and know the Lord and when those ones are trying to do God's will and think they are, in fact, doing God's will. another example: i remember the time early in my faith journey with the Lord when i realized that the things that Abraham did were not all things that God wanted for him. (Abraham and Sarah's decision to have a child by Hagar when they couldn't maintain faith that God would give them a child in their old age.) I'll continue this more later.

POOR FIG TREE

I'm discussing Jesus' effective cursing of the fig tree. #1) it remind me -since I've been listening to a series of sermons on JONAH this summer and fall- of the vine that GOD caused to grow up, first to shade Jonah from the hot sun and then to be object lesson to Jonah to coax a little empathy out of him; #2) I just want to express my view that Jesus wanted to show- without being so VERY harsh to the unbelieving Jewish leaders- the consequences of rejecting Jesus in the light of all the divine confirmation that God had confirmed Jesus with to the people present at that time. #3) ... i continued my thoughts at posts called FOR YOUR SAKES, and JESUS TALKS OF GOD'S TIMING