Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
(Matthew 13:52) KJV
Today we’re at that place in the Bible when, after 40 years of being in Egypt by himself, Joseph’s family come to him, where he’s made provision for them to survive seven years of famine.
I left England in 1988 and I’ve been in the USA for 36 years. By myself.
Hopefully I’m not a prophet: with any luck, I’m just an idiot.
So WHY? an I still here?
My children.
Anyway, let’s not get into a ponderous retrospective. Yesterday we dreamed up “The Pantheon of Idiots,” as a parallel to “The League of Shadows,” or “The Avengers,” as a group of enhanced… idiots who don’t seem to care how foolish they look. It’s a superpower.
It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you, but if you trust the Lord, you are safe.
(Proverbs 29:25) GNT
One one hand it could be said that this isn’t a superpower, it’s an ego on steroids. However, based on personal experience, ego is simply not enough to keep you going down the long haul. And here’s a chain of causality which may become a Snapchat sermon.
If you’re worried about what people think or say about you, then you won’t be called to be a prophet. If all that I had behind me was a work of fiction, something which I constructed from my ego, then what if it’s not particularly good? What if, heaven forbid, it’s embarrassingly bad? What happens when I doubt myself?
The League of Shadows
Makes me think of
The Pantheon of Idiots
So why am I pondering
A Confederacy of Dunces?
Which leads me to
The Neon Bible
โSo then, anyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, and the wind blew hard against that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on rock.
โBut anyone who hears these words of mine and does not obey them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, the wind blew hard against that house, and it fell. And what a terrible fall that was!โ
(Matthew 7:24-27) GNT
People try to make sense of the world in a variety of ways, but if all you have is an imaginary world that has been build within your own ego then you might end up like A Confederacy of Dunces.
No matter how may times I crashed and burned, the world that I built within my mind wasn’t imaginary, nor was it constructed from my own ego. It’s the living Word of God, that’s WHY? I survived.
This is not a work of fiction, although I have made it as much like satire or a parody as possible. No matter what the world does to me, Genesis 1:3 is nucleosynthesis, when the periodic table of elements was established. The verse is a code for E=MC2, the matter/energy conversion equation.
E = and God said
(Genesis 1:3)
M = let there be
C = light
C2 = and there was light
Salvation
- Call upon the name of Jesus Christ,
- believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
- confess your sin.
