Perelandra

Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 5 both speak of “4 living creatures”. 

Ezekiel 1:5 (ESV)

And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness

Revelation 5:6 (ESV)

And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

Is this a coincidence, or are these two passages referring to the same 4 creatures? 

In both places, the 4 creatures seem to be attending to the presence of the Glory of the Lord.

 

I’ve finished reading Blue Like Jazz, by Donald Miller.  It’s the first book of his I’ve read so the evaluation may be premature.  I think that Donald is Mark Twain and C.S. Lewis wrapped up into one.  The clarity of his “Non-religious thoughts on Christian spirituality”, put in such earthy tones lay waste to some of the best thought-out theologies we have available to us.  Ah…maybe not “lay waste to”, but it definitely subdues them. 

This is apparent throughout the book, but nowhere more so than in his chapter on “worship.” 

It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it.  It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking from within our reality, that it would contradict reason.  But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.

and later in that chapter:

Too much of our time is is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe.  By reducing Christian spirituality to a formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

He finishes Chapter 17 strong:

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay.  And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow.  I don’t think there is any better worship than wonder.

I think Don is a lot smarter than he pretends to let on.  And he has our true God more right in his wonder, than thousands others do in their systematic theologies.   C.S. Lewis has expressed this very idea in his “Mere Christianity”.  A god that submitted to our formulae for who a god should be…is no God, and is not worthy of our attention, let alone our worship.

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Dear GOD, help me climb off my high horse.  Do not let me assume that I have you figured out.

Travelling by air sucks bad enough, but people in airports get in a hurry in all the wrong places.

This seems to happen everywhere there is a line. Passengers bunch up, just short of pushing and shoving. I don’t care if I am the first or the last person on a plane, the thing isn’t taking off until everyone is in their seats anyway! I tell people that when I let them go ahead of me in line at the terminal. Timing is irrelevant when you’re standing in line to get on the plane.

Then there is the securty line. They stand in line, impatient, but do nothing to prepare for the coming security check. I stand there, shoes unlaced (almost every airport security checkpoint requires the shoes to be x-ray’d), jacket unzipped, spare change tucked away in my bag with all my pens, laptop bag unzipped with the laptop ready to come out (laptop must go through the x-ray outside of the bag). I break land speed records at the security checkpoint because it’s the one place in the airport where I am empowered to determine, in part, my own schedule.

NO ONE is in a hurry once they reach the checkpoint. I don’t understand this. It makes no sense to me.

The passengers aren’t completely to blame. Why do the airlines board a plane back to front? They should board the plane outside in. Window seats first, then middle seats, then aisle seats, with the appropriate exceptions for health, age, or people travelling together.

tsia

Please delete the following words from the next dictionary. They are deprived of meaning from rabid overuse.

1. essentially
2. basically
3. virtually
4. actually
5. really
6. decimate(d)
7. honestly
8. perhaps
9. indeed
10. truly
11. realistically
12. conceptually

(have fun, add yours!)

I could write alot of things about this car, but go to StangNet and check it out this monster for yourself.

Whoa…

My first car was a 1966 Mustang w/200CID straight 6-cylinder engine. It was a rusty, nearly-dead, heap, but I’ve been in love with the model since then.

FWIW, The cars made by for in the years 1974-1978 with the name “Mustang” on the side…we not Mustangs.

I can live with the first Mustang sharing a platform with a Falcon, but let’s face it, the 1974-1978 Mustangs were Pinto GT’s.

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Upon further reflection, the list price for the new GT500 is $45k, with widespread reports of dealers taking between $10k-$15k premium on pre-orders. So it’s $55k-$65k for this when the Corvette starts at abut $48k. Emotion, 1 1/2 back seats, and oval vs. bowtie are the only real differences between the two. It would be REAL hard to not buy a Corvette if I were saving up for the GT500. Hmmm…and before I got there, I would have to resist the incredible urge to purchase a Thunderbird! This is fun…