Something to read

Hello faithful followers. It's been a long while since the last post. I was recently asked to contribute to a friends blog called, "Blogging though the Bible". My first contributing post went up today and was on Luke 1-3. Check it out if you'd like. And thanks for hanging out with me in 2012. Those were good times.

http://blogthroughbible.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/i-am-writing-you-to-give-you-an-account/

What Ray Lewis and Jason Whitlock taught me about Justice

I've got a real problem with justice. I want it and want it how I want it. As a result my desire for justice lends itself toward a tendency to judge, which ultimately isn't up to me.

No where has this been more true for over a decade than with Ray Lewis.  I absolutely hated that he "got away with murder" as I frequently lamented whenever the Ravens were on TV. My desire to be right spilled out tonight a I watched the game tonight with my wife and my three boys. The boys were super interested in the story and ready to jump on the judgement bandwagon. I was pleased and then just as quickly startled by what I was passing on to my boys. Instead of preaching Ray's redemption I was passing on my own tainted tendency.

Justice is by no means a bad thing and certainly something I hope my boys will desire too. But I need to be right in how I determine righteousness, primarily that it is not up to me to determine. By all accounts Ray has found righteousness in the only way that matters,in Christ, and that is something I should celebrate - not suppress.

Tonight as my mind was changing I appreciated my wife's level headedness and this article. Go Ravens! Go Ray!