From ea08bfd79183783b1ad277245b0904db21afb288 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lyle Mantooth Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:44:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Luke 11:33-36 --- content/bible_journal/luke_11:33-36.md | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/bible_journal/luke_11:33-36.md diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_11:33-36.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_11:33-36.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b1c98b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_11:33-36.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 11:33–36" +date = "2022-12-12" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk11.33-36) + +On one hand, this passage is an easy metaphor with obvious application, but +it's really hard to connect with the context of the rest of the chapter, and +that makes me nervous. I don't see how lamps and eyes follow from talking about +signs or demons. And the next verse indicates a clear break in time and space, +so that context should be considered less. … + +Actually, no. Verse 37 is meant to connect them with "While Jesus was +speaking". So the things Jesus taught in our passage for today are meant to +inform what Luke tells us about the dinner conversation, which I will try to +unpack tomorrow, if the Lord wills. + +So, then, as a lamp is set up so that it can light up a whole room, so too must +a person's eye be opened that the light of truth and goodness may fill up the +person's whole body. If the eye is closed, the light is still shining, but it +is blocked from getting to where it can do any good. + +* * * + +Open our eyes that we may be filled with Your light.