Insightful Musings on the Scriptures

by

Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67

Good morning, dear ones.

I’m glad to have a building around me with a good roof on it. It’s wind and rain out there. That, along with the lateness of the hour, is enough to bump my jog routine.

I suppose I will give attention to running some cedar stock through my molder/planer machine today…since that’s an indoor job. I will turn out 1”x6” tongue and groove paneling.

Whatever you intend to turn out today, I hope it turns out.

Love, Dad/Ray

Allow me to tell it like I think it is. Rebekah may have been gorgeous, she may have been a mature adult, she may have been in the line of God’s intended blessing, and she may have had some profound divine encounters, but for reasons I think I kind of understand, her worldview (including her view of God) was still infested with a great deal of STUPID. That’s what SIN really is, you know—a self-centered insistence on creating God in one’s own image—reducing Him to a big cosmic dummy—Who is reached and influenced only by magic-like words (prayers) or religious ceremonies, and doesn’t really know or see everything going on—if He is truly even there at all.

The FOCUS VERSE above is presented on the heels of her launching her ugly deception that exploited her motherly position and manipulated Jacob to comply. It strikes me as a declaration of Rebekah’s blinding hypocrisy. Someone could have legitimately offered a rebuttal like, “Just a minute, Rebekah—you don’t have valid reason to be so down on these Hittite women—like you’re not such a sterling example of integrity yourself!”

This is not an attempt to butcher and condemn Rebekah as much as a warning to be alert to the same viral infection within each of us. The antiviral cure—A HEART AFTER GOD.