‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another,
“We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not weep.”
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.’
BLOG DISCUSSION QUESTION: If you can't win for losing.....why even try?
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Pastor Jerry.....another one of those parables that seem to have parts that are hard to comprehend. Just what does that "wisdom" sentence mean in relation to the story? ...Your ending question is a very appropriate question for all of us that get discouraged easily!
What else are we to do? Bury our heads in the sand, no we are to continue to be part of God's world. That world says we need to keep asking the questions, studying what God has to say to us, and maybe not be so judgemental.
Jesus said elsewhere, "In this world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world."
in other words, "Whether we win or lose....we win!"
That is why we can keep on doing.
Maybe we need to keep getting the lesson to "get" the lesson. mjb
Your summary comment, Pastor Jerry, on the winning and losing..."Whether we win our lose, we win!" is quite thought provoking! Of course, that's the summary and Good News of the Gospel, but it is a statement that certainly "raises a few eyebrows" for a lot of very thoughtful thinkers! Perhaps Fulghum should've put that statement in his book, "Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten!"
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