If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.
For the second time this week, I find myself amidst people drawing crosses on inanimate objects. Strangely, the expressed purpose each time seemed quite different from my perspective. Is God trying to show me a deep difference, or an underlying similarity?
posted by Naomi at 21:51
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2 Comments:
This post is intriguing. Could you please elaborate?
2:30 am
The first time was drawing crosses, with oil, on the boundaries of the building our church uses for meeting together on Sundays. I was a bit iffy about it because I didn't really like the implication that we were doing it because of the evil spirits brought in by people doing martial arts in the building (hmmmmmmmm), and the sheer (ironic) pagan feel to the ritual.
The second time was during a prayer time at a SA youth drop-in centre... we wandered around the building (together and separately) praying at each doorway for the people who would walk through it, for peace and love to come upon them. I don't remember where drawing crosses came into it, but I do remember taking communion together.
Interesting... now that you ask, I can see a huge difference between the two. The first was focused on fighting spirits, the second on blessing people (perhaps a more effective way of fighting evil spirits?).
9:08 am
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