Unredacted

Psalms 87:4 (KJV) I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.

(Proverbs 10 also read)

At first after reading this Psalm I just kind of shook my head and said, “What was this all about?”  I closed my Bible and said that was kind of a waste of time but then as I kept thinking about it I thought, “Now it is in the Bible. There must be a significant reason.”

Call me rationalizing.  Call me stretching.  The thing is, as I read this again, I began to realize that it was still in the Bible.  One of the things that haters often pontificate about is that the Bible is inconsistent or contradicts itself.  I would admit there are things that need to be worked out.  There are things that are hard to understand.  There are mysteries that honestly we probably can’t understand.  All that adds to the genuine nature of this being a book written over centuries by real people as God spoke to them.

As we look at various documents that we want the government to turn over and open up we get angry when they give us an entire page where everything is blocked out.  It is redacted to the point of the ridiculous.  God did not go back and re-edit the Bible to make us happy.  He gave it to us the way He wants us to have it. It is a genuine expression of what prophets heard, what Paul understood, and what Matthew meant to say.

So?  Read with confidence.  You may not understand it the first time, or the 10th time.  You can rest and the fact that this is what God wanted said.