Currently reading…
Finished in 2010…
What I read in 2009
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- Nineteen Minutes
-
The Stranger
- A High View of Scripture?
- The Blue Parakeet
- The Great Brain
- Introduction to the Bible
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- The Natural
- The Old Man and The Sea
- Candy Girl
- Fight Club
- Starship Troopers
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
- World Without End
- SimChurch: Being the Church in the Virtual World
- SuperFreakonomics
- No Country for Old Men
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- The Pillars of the Earth
Tuesday, April, 29, 2008
Posted at: 10:00 pm
Absalom develops a plan to pursue David who has fled from Jerusalem. Absalom and the army of Israel chase after David but before the main assault is launched, Absalom and a small party of men are found alone by some of David’s men. Absalom is killed. Upon hearing the news of Absalom’s death David mourns.
Even though Absalom had rebelled against David, David still loved him. David did not want his son to die and, in fact, when David learned of his death he asked why he could not have died in Absalom’s place. There is a parallel here between David’s relationship with Absalom and God’s relationship with humankind. David would have been willing to sacrifice himself to save his son; in the same way God was willing to sacrifice himself in order to save humanity. The difference is that David was not able to save Absalom; God (through Jesus sacrifice) is able to save us.
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