Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
[Blog Author's Note: My father comments on the story found on Luke 6:24-26.]
September 17, 2000
The words of Jesus in Luke 6 are fearful. Life is every bit as sober as I have thought it is. I do not want to get to the end of it and be found wanting. It is easy to drift, unaware that there is more to know, to understand, to do, to believe, to avoid, to hold. I know so little, I have done so little, as a child playing make-believe. If I, serious as I am, have a glimpse of this, what do other Americans have in a generation that is walking away from God in every direction?
Note Card: Putting a Child's Eyes on Luke 6
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
[Blog Author's Note: My father comments on the story found in Luke 6:6-11. My dad loved simple truths, and as a tool for understanding scripture, he sometimes attempted to look at a passage through a child's eyes.]
September 14, 2000
A child in the synagogue where and when Jesus cured a man with a withered hand would have been unable to understand what was wrong with Jesus healing the man, in spite of any amount of attempted justification of opposition to it. Surely the law in its nature and intent was as Jesus said, and the child would have been completely bewildered by the condemnation of that wonderful event.
[Blog Author's Note: My father comments on the story found in Luke 6:6-11. My dad loved simple truths, and as a tool for understanding scripture, he sometimes attempted to look at a passage through a child's eyes.]
September 14, 2000
A child in the synagogue where and when Jesus cured a man with a withered hand would have been unable to understand what was wrong with Jesus healing the man, in spite of any amount of attempted justification of opposition to it. Surely the law in its nature and intent was as Jesus said, and the child would have been completely bewildered by the condemnation of that wonderful event.
Proverbs 20:6-7
Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? The just man walketh in his integrity: His children are blessed after him.
Note Card: Psalm 45, A Bride's Perspective
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
[Blog Author's Note: My father did not fully develop the following thought... at least not in the note card I am looking at right now. However, it seems to be an interesting idea and one that might prove inspiring to anyone whose devotions have been recently dry.]
March 18, 2006
Psalm 45 appears to be a series or a progression of realizations that the bride advances through as she encounters and looks about upon fabulous new surroundings and people among whom she has been placed.
Verse one: The overwhelming excitement of being with the King, as being special to him.
[Verse] two: The exceeding graciousness of the king as a person attracting the human soul like a magnet, the pleasure and expectation of hearing his next words...
[Blog Author's Note: My father did not fully develop the following thought... at least not in the note card I am looking at right now. However, it seems to be an interesting idea and one that might prove inspiring to anyone whose devotions have been recently dry.]
March 18, 2006
Psalm 45 appears to be a series or a progression of realizations that the bride advances through as she encounters and looks about upon fabulous new surroundings and people among whom she has been placed.
Verse one: The overwhelming excitement of being with the King, as being special to him.
[Verse] two: The exceeding graciousness of the king as a person attracting the human soul like a magnet, the pleasure and expectation of hearing his next words...
Note Card: Some Thoughts on Understanding Paul
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
March 16, 2006
Paul sometimes is exceedingly difficult to follow. I wonder, should we look at his process of building a case for his conclusion? That seems to be the usual assumption. But it may be that we ought to look at his conclusion first and then to think through the steps essential to understanding how it is that we got to here. After all, God sent His Son to acomplish our salvation for us. That foundation is the conclusion that we desire, and it is handed to us, not by study or logic but as fact and as a revelation. Rather than trying to figure out how to get somewhere, we need to learn how it was, is, that we got here and stand in thie grand position and place of favor. We push the string, rope, but it is the anchor to which it is tied that is the security. The various knots in the rope between us and our anchor (Christ) are but places to grip. But is is not that we must hold on to be saved. We are tied.
March 16, 2006
Paul sometimes is exceedingly difficult to follow. I wonder, should we look at his process of building a case for his conclusion? That seems to be the usual assumption. But it may be that we ought to look at his conclusion first and then to think through the steps essential to understanding how it is that we got to here. After all, God sent His Son to acomplish our salvation for us. That foundation is the conclusion that we desire, and it is handed to us, not by study or logic but as fact and as a revelation. Rather than trying to figure out how to get somewhere, we need to learn how it was, is, that we got here and stand in thie grand position and place of favor. We push the string, rope, but it is the anchor to which it is tied that is the security. The various knots in the rope between us and our anchor (Christ) are but places to grip. But is is not that we must hold on to be saved. We are tied.
Walking in the Footsteps of a Giant
[Blog Author's Note: Walks with my father were sometimes a pleasure but frequently a duty. Yet the lessons learned during those walks will not soon be forgotten. (See also Marci's Thoughts on Walking.) My son's words below call to my mind 3 John 1:4, which I heard my father quote any time he was pleased with one of his sons. "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."]
A stooped old man, shuffling down the side-walk, dressed in a red and black checkered flannel shirt, with one pant-leg hiked up, wearing a shoe five sizes too large on the wrong foot, and on the other wrong foot, a woman’s sandal, this is not what most people consider a giant, but I would. I should know, since I was normally chasing after him. This giant was unlike any other. He did not leave a path of destruction wherever he trod; rather, he left a legacy in the hearts of everyone he knew. He did not tower over everyone or stoop through doorways, rather he was a man of small stature. It was not his appearance that intimidated, rather his intellect. Why then do I call this man a giant? He was a giant because, as children look up to a giant in wonder and maybe even dream of one day being as tall, so everyone who knew this man, Stanley Cabot Julin, looked up to him as a person they wished they could be. He was not respected because of money, for he certainly did not have much of that, but rather, because he was a man so devoted to his Lord that nearly everything he said had some spiritual value.
Note Card: And All This to Justify Hyphenating Two Words
Written on a 4x6 note card by Stan Julin.
1 Peter 2:9 says (to the Christian diaspora), "...ye are...Kingdom-Priesthood..." I cannot see how anything can be added, subtracted to or from that translation (mine), if one is striving for literalness. I know and understand such expressions as, "a Kingdom of priests", etc., but that serves to make it smoother in English. It is not inaccurate, particularly. I think "A kingdom a priesthood" would be more accurate (no comma between), and I would rather have that than "a Kingdom of priests."
1 Peter 2:9 says (to the Christian diaspora), "...ye are...Kingdom-Priesthood..." I cannot see how anything can be added, subtracted to or from that translation (mine), if one is striving for literalness. I know and understand such expressions as, "a Kingdom of priests", etc., but that serves to make it smoother in English. It is not inaccurate, particularly. I think "A kingdom a priesthood" would be more accurate (no comma between), and I would rather have that than "a Kingdom of priests."
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