Thing sin life to be taken seriously; Proverbs 6:6-11
Well I blogged just a while earlier about not taking many things in life seriously, and I think it’s still generally true of me, but I do take some things seriously. For instance, when a speaker is giving a presentation. Take for example, the Early Church History and Acts professor I listened to tonight. The group of people are the usual Biblical Studies rowdy crowd - with the addition of a couple of morons (a.k.a. “class clowns”) who really disrespect the speaker. Our professor was asking everyone where they went over the summer (Biola kids are loaded, so as a collective audience they’ve toured the world). Then she asked what we want to do for a living. Some idiot kid yelled out “I want to start a church here and steal all the money from the rich people and give it to poor people in Europe”. Maybe it should be school policy that anyone who yells out stupid comments like that should be sent outside and shot execution style with the whole class watching. Ok, sorry, I’m just a bit ticked off.
The Biblical Studies always have this type of stupid crowd, but there’s a couple decent ones in there of course. I just need to find them..
“Go to the ant, you lazybones;
consider its ways, and be wise.
Without having any chief
or officer or ruler,
it prepares its food in summer,
and gathers its sustenance in
harvest.
How long will you lie there,
O lazybones?
When will you rise from your
sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest,
and povery will come upong you like
a robber,
and want, like an armed warrior.”
Proverbs 6:6-11
Comments: Just a brief note here. I remember on my days discussing philosophy and religion with the internet loons, this verse was brought up. Someone thought they had refuted the entire Bible because this verse is mistaken - ants DO have a ruler, what we call the queen ant. Talk about missing the point. The purpose of the verse is to use things that the culture understands as an analogy for discussion. There’s also a verse that people take to refute the entire Bible - in the New Testament, Christ says that one must have the faith of a mustard seed, which is the smallest of the seeds. Aha! Refuted! the mustard seed is NOT the smallest mustard seed, so all of this teaching is completely and utterly useless and meaningless! Fools, I don’t think you can TRY harder at missing the point and purpose of these verses.