Gods Chosen People
This is one of the funniest things I have ever read on the real plight of God's Chosen People, our friends the Jews. I wonder how many Jews really might feel this way.
Pax
Stephen
posted by Mary Liz Ingram @ 9:29 PM
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
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1 Comments:
This whole chosen people thing is funny to me, and then yet not so funny at the same time. I mean, it is a good satire on thousands of years of terrible things being done to a people hand chosen by God, but I can't help holding my breathe while reading it for some reason hoping that all Jewish people don't think that way. I am sure that most probably do, but that is why I like Fiddler on the Roof so much. Tevieah (spelling wrong I am sure) is able to continue his relationship with God in a very personal way despite the trials of his family or villiage. Yes he is still ejected with his family in the end, but he never expresses real concern that things will not end up well (my opinion of course).
So much hate has been dished out the Hebrew people again and again and again and again. Is it proof of how difficult it is to be God's people because of God's inability to protect them, or is it some greater cosmic struggle of Good and Evil? If there is Good and Evil in the way that I generally ascribe to it, it would make sense that whatever forces evil could manipulate would be bent towards keeping God's people from using the amazing potential they have to minister to this world.
I certainly feel this at work in my own life, not that I am God's chosen, but I am one of many who are attempting to discover the goodness of a life God has offered through bewildering grace. And yet I understand the frustration too because a very few years of being a Christian at times feels like a thousand years.
Thanks for putting this article up Stephen... I had no idea I'd be so interested.
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