Your body needs regular check ups. It's important to visit your doctor and your dentist regularly to keep your body healthy. Your soul needs regular check ups, too. Last time we looked at the need to regularly examine yourself. "How do we do that? Scripture." I think we can be a bit more specific than that.
I was walking around in my yard to see if the ants were in the air conditioner again when I noticed a part of the eave needs to be replaced. There are boards in the fence that need to be fixed. Everything is going to need to be repainted soon. A house requires continual upkeep. You can't maintain some kind of status quo; your choices are regular maintenance or deterioration. The same is true of your soul.
My dad died twelve years ago. On the evening after his funeral, my wife took our kids to Chick-fil-a. They were their usual chipper selves: [big smiles] "How are you today?"
They probably didn't expect the answer, "Not great. We buried Granddaddy today." But they had a great response: They comped their meal and gave the kids little plush cows.
Despite popular sentiment, the Bible really does have a lot to say to modern life, but it's rarely as simple as finding the one verse that speaks to an issue. Thus when someone pulls out a verse and claims it's all you need to know on a political or social issue, it's reasonable to be skeptical. Let's look together at a topic that's generating a lot of heat right now.
Is "do not oppress the foreigner" really all scripture has to say about our immigration debates? I'd like to invite you to look over my shoulder as I wrestle with the issue biblically.
