Life In Stereo

Have you ever seen those pictures that are usually a bunch of scrambled shapes, or dots, or lines and don't make any sense and people tell you that they see a horse, or a dolphin, or a cross, or something in the picture.  The first time I ever saw those stereograms I thought everyone else was crazy.  I couldn't see it.  All I could see were random lines and curves and squiggles, and definitely not a horse, or dolphin, or cross.  For me, just like most people, seeing is believing, and I just couldn't see it.

Priests

I was reading through the book of 1Kings not long ago and a passage in chapter 13 stood out to me.  Starting in verse 33, it says, "Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people.  Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places.  This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth."  Those are strong words.  I don't know about you, but destruction from the face of the earth isn't something I want said about my family.


What really captured my interest was this idea that anyone who wanted to be a priest he appointed, from all sorts of people.  That got me to thinking, who should be a priest?  Who shouldn't be a priest? And what is a priest anyway?