Table Before my Enemy

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;

I often ask why? Why bring my enemy before me? Why must I suffer at their hand once again? Is it because they don't know they are my enemy? Or they don't suspect that I consider them an enemy?

Frustration, bewilderment, tired of it all. I find the occurances to be more and more against the grain of what I want to do, but yet I know that is not the purpose for this life. Maybe I will know in this life what your purpose is, maybe not! But as long as you prepare the table I will sit at it no matter the superficiality and damage that it cause me and my family!

Grace and Truth Realized

This verse struck me as I read through the first chapter of John. John 1:17 The law was given through Moses. Choosing a few of Webster's explanations given eludes to the idea of a gift or possibly to designate as a share or portion or possibly just the simplistic delivery of an object by some bodily action. This one "to cause a person to catch by contagion, infection, or exposure"
draws an interesting parallel to Romans 3:20; Romans 5:13;

But what struck me more than the given portion of the verse was the realized. Webster puts it as:

re·al·ize
Pronunciation: 'rE-&-"lIz, 'ri-&-
Function: transitive verb

1 a : to bring into concrete existence : ACCOMPLISH b : to cause to seem real : make appear real <a book in which the characters are carefully realized>
2 a : to convert into actual money <realized assets> b : to bring or get by sale, investment, or effort : GAIN
3 : to conceive vividly as real : be fully aware of <did not realize the risk she was taking>

Let's play with that a bit. Grace and Truth were brought into concrete existance through Christ. Grace and Truth were brought by the efforts of Christ. This one is purely my emphasis, Through the efforts of Christ, Grace and Truth were brought to the full awareness of mankind.

The one thing that keeps jumping out at me is this idea of being brought into concrete existance, made fully aware and vividly real. Using webster's definition of relaized, It's almost possible to accept the idea that Grace and Truth existed prior to Christ but were not fully understood.

However, once we dive back into the greek we find a different scenario. The original word is Ginomai. This word is more direct in what it means. It's more of a coming into existance, beginning, to be made, to become. It's amazing how one word given a few thousand years of translation can move so far from what was originally intended.

So, once again let's play with it. Grace and Truth came into existance through Jesus Christ. Grace and Truth began with Jesus Christ. The becoming of Grace and Truth was through Jesus Christ.

I like words!