Proverbs 25
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If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;
if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
22
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head,
and the Lord will reward you.
Have a good morning all.
I must get some work done.
I went to a Stand With Orlando rally last night. A tremendous crowd — 750 people, on such short notice -— especially for Johnson City, TN.
The MC told the crowd “Today, we’re all gay— today we’re all LGBT”: an identity of perversion, and I do not believe in that. The song chosen to warm up the crowd was “Imagine” (”Imagine there’s no country -— no possessions -— no religion —— no Heaven”): a creed of denials, and I do not believe in that, either.
I believe the Word of God will stand forever, and His Word is what I had on my sign: “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” And I got a lot of “Thanks-you’s” and huge hugs from mascara’ed boys gone silly and sloppy women gone butch. It all goes to show that, despite what divides us, it’s possible to share a degree of respect and understanding.
And you know what? I believe in that.
Somehow I don’t think the good people at Chick-fil-A saw the first responders and the people standing in line at blood donation centers as “Enemies”
The coals could be a multiple-meaning or punned illustration. Some scholars see this as a gesture of useful friendship (when fire was hard to strike, people would borrow coals from a neighbor and carry them in an insulated bucket, atop their heads). Some see this as the sense of humility the recipient may experience. Some see this as an analogy to the process of extracting metal from ore. All of these reflect in some way. I don’t think it would mean to literally burn somebody’s head off.