HeyJaredThe Voice in the Silence
for the ones who pray in the dark and are not sure anything is listening. weekly letters on silence, faith, and the interior life.
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A Bridegroom of Blood (opens the original)
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Three verses in Exodus 4 read like somebody tore a page out of another book and left it in this one by mistake.Moses is on the road back to Egypt with his wife and his boys riding a donkey. Then this.At a lodging place on the way, the LORD met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched his feet with it and said, Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me. So he let him alone. It was then that she said, A bridegroom of blood, because of the c
Ask Him, He Is of Age (opens the original)
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Spit and dirt and a paste, and then a walk across the city with mud drying on his eyes. Nobody in John 9 asks the blind man whether he wants any of this. The disciples don't ask him anything either. They use him for a theology question first, whose sin was it, his or his parents', and Jesus throws the whole frame out before he answers it. Neither. Then the pool called Siloam, which John stops the story to translate for us, Sent.He comes back seeing, and the trouble starts within about a verse.Th
He Spoke to Them in Their Sleep (opens the original)
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Pharaoh got better information about the next fourteen years than Jacob did. Go through the dreams in Scripture and sort them by who received them, and a pattern turns up that I have never once heard taught: a surprising number of them land on people outside the covenant, and several of those people act on what they got faster than the insiders act on anything.AbimelechGod comes to a Philistine king in Gerar at night and opens with, behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman thou hast
The Boy in the Window (opens the original)
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Luke counts the lamps.He's compressing whole months of travel into half a verse in this stretch of the book, ports and stopovers going by two at a time, and then on a Sunday night in Troas he stops everything to tell you the upstairs room had a lot of lamps burning in it. The story works fine without that. I've read the verse plenty of times without once asking why it's sitting there.Here's what's around it.Paul had been in Troas seven days and he was leaving in the morning. They met on the firs
At Midnight the Man Was Startled (opens the original)
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Naomi stops praying and starts arranging.The word she used before"My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?"Rest is the same word she used on the road out of Moab, when she kissed them both and asked God to grant each of them rest in the house of a husband. She prayed for it then. Two months of silence later she goes and gets it herself, and the plan she comes up with is not one you'd read aloud in most churches.What she tells her to do"Is not Boaz our relative,
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