I was reading along the lines of one popular evangelist's enumeration of "faith fundamentals", and came across Romans 10:19.
"..Moses saith, I WILL PROVOKE YOU TO JEALOUSY BY THEM THAT ARE NO PEOPLE, AND BY A FOOLISH NATION I WILL ANGER YOU."
We are so often provoked to jealousy, and that after we're told our salvation pushes us towards repentence, that repenting is the "works" of faith, the residue, or as Paul and Peter say, the "sweet savour", one could see the righteous by their conduct, not by their own stripes, of which theirs are hidden, but by the stripes given the Lord.
The Kardashians had wrangled in so many people, and others, wrangling, even Taylor Swift announcements glutting web servers so full that websites crash in overload.
We are bidden to come to the trough, as the dog returns to his vomit.
"..the people imagine a vain thing..."
And yet further we are encouraged to reach for celebrity, to put ourselves on a pedestal, to garner fame, glory and of course, all the money that comes with it.
As for being brought down by insignificance and pettiness, a constant of the human condition, a constant multiplied by itself, as in Einstein's equation, and acted upon by the world-at-large, each clamoring and jumping over one another for his own benefit.
"I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid..."
"God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew..."
Blessings from
and Praise to
the God of All Consolation.
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