teisipäev, august 24, 2004
MTI = Empty Eye
It seems like years and years ago, but it was really only 7 months ago, that we went to MTI in Colorado for missionary training. http://www.mti.org/splice.htm
At the time, it occurred to me that "MTI" is pronounced like "empty eye" and that seemed so funny! Then I grabbed a Bible and started looking up things about eyes.
Check out Matthew 7:3-5 and Luke 6:41-42.
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye," when all the time you yourself fail to see there is a plank in your own eye? You hypoctrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Man! So much for "gentle Jesus, meek and mild," eh! He really knows how to make someone squirm!
Well, I am so eternally grateful that everyone on staff at MTI had an "empty eye"! We knew that they weren't asking us to do anything they hadn't done themselves, that they had asked themselves the same difficult questions, and continued to ask them.
That's a pretty good life goal, to always have an empty eye. In The Salvation Army, we call that holiness. It's what the whole salvation thing is really getting at -- "full salvation" it's sometimes called even.
I saw an awesome web site I have to share with you.
www.takebackourfaith.org
Some excerpts for those of you who might not feel like clicking on links:
We believe that poverty - caring for the poor and vulnerable - is a religious issue. (Matthew 25:35-40, Isaiah 10:1-2)
We believe that human rights - respecting the image of God in every person - is a religious issue. (Genesis 1:27)
We believe that a consistent ethic of human life is a religious issue. Do the candidates' positions on abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, weapons of mass destruction, HIV/AIDS-and other pandemics-and genocide around the world obey the biblical injunction to choose life? (Deuteronomy 30:19)
I told you it was awesome!
Evelyn
At the time, it occurred to me that "MTI" is pronounced like "empty eye" and that seemed so funny! Then I grabbed a Bible and started looking up things about eyes.
Check out Matthew 7:3-5 and Luke 6:41-42.
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye," when all the time you yourself fail to see there is a plank in your own eye? You hypoctrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
Man! So much for "gentle Jesus, meek and mild," eh! He really knows how to make someone squirm!
Well, I am so eternally grateful that everyone on staff at MTI had an "empty eye"! We knew that they weren't asking us to do anything they hadn't done themselves, that they had asked themselves the same difficult questions, and continued to ask them.
That's a pretty good life goal, to always have an empty eye. In The Salvation Army, we call that holiness. It's what the whole salvation thing is really getting at -- "full salvation" it's sometimes called even.
I saw an awesome web site I have to share with you.
www.takebackourfaith.org
Some excerpts for those of you who might not feel like clicking on links:
We believe that poverty - caring for the poor and vulnerable - is a religious issue. (Matthew 25:35-40, Isaiah 10:1-2)
We believe that human rights - respecting the image of God in every person - is a religious issue. (Genesis 1:27)
We believe that a consistent ethic of human life is a religious issue. Do the candidates' positions on abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, weapons of mass destruction, HIV/AIDS-and other pandemics-and genocide around the world obey the biblical injunction to choose life? (Deuteronomy 30:19)
I told you it was awesome!
Evelyn
