My Lamentations

"...When laughter first manifests itself in the infant, it is an incipient cry...What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?" -Soren Kierkegaard

Who do you want to be like?

        All I can say is wow!  It has been so long since I have had the time to even consider blogging on this thing.  Which is okay since I know that I have been at least attempting to do good things such as school work.  Speaking of school work I discovered a person that I want to be like from my prophets class.  We are currently studying Isaiah and within this book it talks about two kings of the nation of Judah.  Both are faced with the same exact problem and both are instructed by God and Isaiah to ask God for a sign to prove that He will protect His people.  The kings are Ahaz and Hezekiah.  Ahaz doesn't ask God for a sign, which is foolish not noble especially when God commanded him to question God, and because of this the people of Judah start experienceing some really tough times.  However, Hezekiah does ask God for a sign like he is commanded and because of that Hezekiah and the people of Judah survive an enemies' invasion and are blessed by God.  I was thinking about it after class and discovered that I am more like Ahaz and less than Hezekiah.  The issue between these two kings is the issue of trust.  Both Ahaz and Hezekiah trusted that God would protect them from the invading armies, but only Hezekiah trusted that God would allow him to ask Him a question to test Him and not destroy Him.  My issue is also trust.  Trusting God is really hard for me in the context of the unknown.  This makes me to be a lot like king Ahaz.  However, I would rather be like Hezekiah.  I would rather be so close to and so trusting of God that I would not fear to question Him should He command it.  Right now I am an Ahaz, but maybe someday soon I will become more like Hezekiah.

posted by: theweeper at March 31, 2007 07:09 | link | comments |