Today's post will be brief. 2 Kings 4:42-44 is, after all, a short passage. It comes in the same week we're going to read about the feeding of the multitudes on the grassy hill. I find it interesting that there are 2 stories about feeding a lot of people with not enough food. It makes me wonder how many stories there are where the old stories of Israel are retold in a new way for the new people of Israel. It also makes me think how it is that these new stories of God's people need to be retold to a newer people of God.
We make the mistake of thinking the Bible to be static and forget that if it truly is the word of God then it cannot be anything less than living. To be living, then, it has to grow. To grow it will become something new. New does not mean change, it just means new. The word of God grows and in time has new revelations to us - it has to because we grow and become new people with new understandings.
It's a vicious cycle, I know, but if we allow the voice of God to speak to us in the place we're at in our lives we'll hear the stories with a new understanding. I think that's what the world needs now; a new understanding of God's love as given to us by the stories of God and Christ as told in the Bible.
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