My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Is there an asterisk by your name? 1 Chronicles 1-4
The baseball world has a problem. When it comes to sports they have a tremendous history and ability to chart statistics. They can tell you how many hits a batter gets in his career, his on-base-percentage, the number of walks against left-handed pictures, etc. But, because they are a sport giving to so much stat keeping they have a real problem in regard to the "steroid" era. What do they do for the stats over the past 10 years they may have been expanded due to players taking illegal and or strength enhancing drugs? As we watched our favorite players "expand" in front of us we also watched their stats expand. Many have suggested these athletes have an asterisk behind their name. I have no opinion of that but did notice in our reading today that God lists out a lot of names in His Word and seems to make note and put an asterisk by many names. Take a look at Achar in 2:5 whose asterisk reads, "who violated the ban." Of course we know he and his entire family were stoned to death. Many of those in this section have no asterisks at all. I don't know what that means. They may have simply lived non-impacting lives in regard to those around them. Many have an asterisk because they did bad things ... look at Er in 2:3. How would you like that asterisk behind your name. God doesn't miss this stuff. But, many had a positive asterisk behind their name. The most famous in this section is, of course, Jabez, in 4:9-10. Books have been written about his prayer. Do you have an asterisk behind your name and is it because of something positive or something negative? God keeps great notes and knows all of our lives? Do we have an asterisk behind our name when people talk about us and what have we done with it to make it positive for God?
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