2FAB: 1Kings 1-11
Episode 52: We’ve arrived at the story of David’s death and the emergence of his son, Solomon, the legendarily wise king of ancient Israel
Episode 52: We’ve arrived at the story of David’s death and the emergence of his son, Solomon, the legendarily wise king of ancient Israel
We mock God when we think we have done great things. We have not. We have done small things. The great thing is the way a crab reflects colors in a rock-bowl of water by the sea in Maine on a summer’s day.
The same traveling rabbi who offered a tender yoke to the down and out of his time makes the same offer to us today. If you’re tired of it all, if you somehow got yoked to a worrisome old dogma or doctrine, toss it off. That thing is not the yoke of Jesus. His yoke brings rest; it is an easy thing.