![]() ![]() Unknown to them, however, Joseph was rescued from the pit by some traveling salesmen who happened to be passing by and eventually wound up as a slave in Egypt where he was bought by an Army man named Potiphar. Jacob was convinced, and they didn't even have to worry too much about the lie they'd told him because by the time they got around to telling it, they figured that one way or another it, or something like it, must have come true. He was also his father's pet, and they seethed at the sight of the many-colored coat he flaunted while they were running around in T-shirts and dirty jeans.Īfter tossing him into the pit, the brothers decided to tell Jacob, their father, that his fair-haired boy had had a fatal tangle with bob-cats, and in order to convince him, they produced a shirt that they'd dipped in goat's blood. ![]() Big and they were all groveling at his feet but he recounted them in sickening detail at the breakfast table the next morning. ![]() Not only did Joseph have offensive dreams in which he was Mr. JOSEPH'S BROTHERS tried to murder him by throwing him into a pit, but if they had ever been brought to trial, they wouldn't have needed Clarence Darrow to get them an acquittal in any court in the land. Originally published in Wishful Thinking When the kingdom really comes, it's as if the thing you lost and thought you'd never find again is you. It's like finding something you hated to lose and thought you'd never find again-an old keepsake, a stray sheep, a missing child. It's like finding a million dollars in a field, he says, or a jewel worth a king's ransom. Insofar as all the odd ways we do his will at this moment are at best half-baked and halfhearted, the kingdom is still a long way off-a hell of a long way off, to be more precise and theological.Īs a poet, Jesus is maybe at his best in describing the feeling you get when you glimpse the Thing Itself-the kingship of the king official at last and all the world his coronation. Insofar as here and there, and now and then, God's kingly will is being done in various odd ways among us even at this moment, the kingdom has come already. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," Jesus prayed. IT IS NOT A place, of course, but a condition. Kingship might be a better word. ![]()
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