Thursday, May 1, 2008

Chapter 2E

SHOP MANUAL PRINCIPLE #4.
GOD DON’T NEED NO CARFAX REPORT

He watched as we sold ourselves to good and bad causes and ideas, drove recklessly chasing after anything and everything we thought would bring us happiness. He saw the accidents. He knows how often you changed the oil, rotated the tires… And that’s just the beginning. He knows which belts are going to break, the seals are going to leak… body panels are going to get wrinkled. Past, present and future — NOTHING’s hidden from his sight. Here’s what the manual says:

Psalm 139:1-10? — O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O Lord. You helm me in — behind and before; you have laid your hand upon me; such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain. Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

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