Sunday, July 13, 2014

2 Samuel 7-8

(July 7, 2014)

                We tend to think that we need to live our spiritual lives in houses of cedar.  We want to be perfect, and free of iniquity (an admirable goal).  But we also want the trappings of righteousness – the perfect calling, the perfect image, the perfect family, the perfect history.  When these things are messy and difficult, we find ourselves feeling discouraged or stressed.  But what we must remember is that while we should strive to build a spiritual house of cedar, the temporal things (even important temporal things, or temporal things related to our spirituality) can get along quite well in a tent.

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