There is so much that could be written. Nehemiah begins planning to build a wall. The apostles proclaim God's power and good news. I noticed in Isaiah a word about having things backward. Is this not true of the human condition? We see things upside down or backwards. Here is the passage from the Message...
"Doom to you! You pretend to have the inside track. You shut God out and work behind the scenes, Plotting the future as if you knew everything, acting mysterious, never showing your hand. You have everything backward! You treat the potter as a lump of clay. Does a book say to its author, "He didn't write a word of me"? Does a meal say to the woman who cooked it, "She had nothing to do with this"?
The clay mistreats the potter, and a book takes the author's credit, a meal ignores the woman who cooked it...how absurd! Yet, we get it backwards with "author and finisher of our faith" so often! How ironic and revealing of our human nature.
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