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Saturday, July 03, 2004

this verse intrigues me.
proverbs 15:24
The way of life winds upward for the
wise,
That he may turn away from hell
below.

it can be interpreted in both ways. that the way of life for a wise man always turns out for the better because of wisdom or that the way of life for a wise man is like a tornado, always going up, progressive and uncontrollable. you lose your will in that tornado and you go up with the current. But then again, a tornado will just make striving and resistance futile. You can't win a tornado. So the only thing i can conclude at the moment is that wisdom builds this tornado and in the process of building or gaining wisdom, one loses one's will and finally when all is completed, wisdom then turns away a wise man from hell. ha.

just yesterday in bible study, i displayed my ignorance for all. i never knew luke16:9 was spoken by Jesus in sarcasm. "And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail, they may receive you into an everlasting home".
I suppose this sentence would be spoken sarcastically if we understand "everlasting home" to mean hell. But then if we were to think this sentence in a very superficial manner, "everlasting home" could just simply refer to a home on earth. When your business fails or everything crumbles, you will always have friends to turn to and that you will always have a roof over your head on earth..
But that i think stretches the truth a little. who will ever know that he or she has friends until a crisis happens? And if we keep gaining friends through unrighteous mammon, will those particular kind of friends still be around when you don't even have a single mammon?

So that's just me and my mind rambling along. i got a few things in life to straighten out too...

posted by happyhannon at 9:37 AM