Compare and contrast
Often, I can tell what my 6-year-old is learning in school because he drops it casually into conversation. He doesn’t come out and say, Mommy, I’m learning all about tornadoes! He just makes up a game where he’s running from a tornado (for example).
I forget exactly what he was so interested in the other day, but he says, Mommy, let’s compare and contrast these two things. See? This one’s round, but that one’s kind of a rectangle… (I’ll spare you the list, but you can be sure that it was very thorough.)
We’ve already talked about how much of Romans is an exercise in comparing and contrasting Jesus and Adam (see March 1). Today’s reading reminded me of the charge Moses gives to the people after giving them the law...
Deuteronomy 30:19 - Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make.
In the last paragraph, Neil gives us a great list of contrasts; I would add one to that list. We get the choice between freedom and slavery. I can choose to become a slave to sin when I indulge in disobedience, or I can choose to live free from all that when I live submitted to Christ in everything.
Joshua 24:15 - …choose today whom you will serve… But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord.
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