Insightful Musings on the Scriptures

by

Raymond P. Sparre
Northwest University class of '67

Good morning, dear ones.

My fingers aren’t working too well on this keyboard. They’re cold. The temperature given on my smart phone screen says 29 degrees. The trees are showing a flocking of frost. No jog this morning. When I rose just before 5am I simply dressed into my work clothes. I have the track hoe loaded onto my equipment trailer, prepared to go to a job this morning where I will drop and take apart a big sequoia redwood tree, haul the logs here to my place to mill into some material to be used in some projects the owners are ordering.

The little boys were delivered here about an hour ago. So that will have major effect on the shape of our day. It will be a shapely day.

Only two days into the new year. So far, so good. Make Him Lord, and the rest will be good. Good day.

Love, Dad/Ray

If you were to select a role model out of the many names mentioned in this reading, who would it be? As I scan the roster, only two stand out as worthy of a wise choice—Enoch and Noah. Everyone else simply lived—merely existed—and by comparison with our present-day life spans, their human existence lasted a very long time. But it is stated of only Enoch and Noah that they “walked with God” (5:24; 6:9). The overall compelling evidence from Biblical and historical revelation is that this is, by far (farther than we can even imagine), the absolute best way to do life. A long “happy and healthy” existence is no match with walking with God—no matter how many birthdays are tallied—living life in personal relationship with the Author of life.

This ancient record offers profound confirmation of Jesus words—“For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life (walking with God), and only a few find it” (Matthew 7:13-14).