Friday, March 28, 2008
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell: "I feel over matched. I always figured when I got older, God would…sort of come into my life somehow. And he didn’t. And I don’t blame Him. If I was Him, I’d have the same opinion of me that He does".
Ellis: "You Don’t know what He thinks".
- No Country for Old Men
Sheriff Bell's quote echoes how I feel a lot of time. I have always had this notion that when I get older, I will be better. I don’t know where that idea came from. As if age over comes sin. Maybe I have been expecting some sort of supernatural maturity to kick in that would dissolve all of my youthful foolishness. The problem is that I am not so youthful anymore and the foolishness is still here.
Grace is such a hard thing to us to grasp. If I really understood the extent of God's grace, I wouldn't have a low opinion of myself at times. I saw in the paper last weekend that people were crucifying themselves on Easter Sunday in the Philippians as tribute to Jesus. After I read the article I wondered if they did that to themselves because they felt the need to punish themselves for their past sins or perhaps out of guilt. If they really understood how great God’s grace was would they still of tortured themselves in Christ’s sake?
Ellis: "You Don’t know what He thinks".
- No Country for Old Men
Sheriff Bell's quote echoes how I feel a lot of time. I have always had this notion that when I get older, I will be better. I don’t know where that idea came from. As if age over comes sin. Maybe I have been expecting some sort of supernatural maturity to kick in that would dissolve all of my youthful foolishness. The problem is that I am not so youthful anymore and the foolishness is still here.
Grace is such a hard thing to us to grasp. If I really understood the extent of God's grace, I wouldn't have a low opinion of myself at times. I saw in the paper last weekend that people were crucifying themselves on Easter Sunday in the Philippians as tribute to Jesus. After I read the article I wondered if they did that to themselves because they felt the need to punish themselves for their past sins or perhaps out of guilt. If they really understood how great God’s grace was would they still of tortured themselves in Christ’s sake?
