We all start something new with a history, with a past. We are attached to it. Like our bank account or the property we've owned, it's there, or it's there if the records haven't been altered or purged. So, here's a question for you, can history be repurposed? Not scandalously rewritten for political purposes, but repurposed? There's the knee-jerk reaction, why yes, but then a significantly more convicting one, can mine? For knee-jerk instance, this blog is repurposed, and you can scroll back to its origins to see that I, Josiah Hutchison, when I was about to be furloughed from my employer in 2020, was quite frenzied about sUASes—and what a strange way to spell drones that is. Even if I had tried to erase the blog content, those that were compelled could have easily dug those original posts back up from the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. But for a more convicting discovery, take a quick read of Deuteronomy 15:7-11 and Mark 10:17-31 (Matthew 19:16-30). Okay, it won't be quick, but it could be purposeful.
Finished? Okay. Proceed!
There always seems to be one more infringed upon law to remember to do, isn’t there? And that infringement is ever attached to your past, but can your history be repurposed? Could the rich man have gone away rejoicing at having been shown the error in his ways? Yeshua spoke no new law, but merely called the rich man's attention back to his lack of obedience and that his change of course could have brought him more blessing, and don't forget, could have been a blessing.
So, as the disciples asked after the rich man sulked away, who then can be saved?
Please write your answer in the comment below before you close this page.
And keep reading (you'll make new history),
JH
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