April 30, 2009
Today's Reading: 1 Samuel 6-7 and Psalms 7-8
Yesterday, I commented on how dumb it is for the people of Israel to take the Ark out into battle because they assumed that it would help them win a battle. Instead, they lost, proving that the mere possession of holy objects is no evidence of any positive outcome.
Still, it didn’t work out well for the Philistines, because the statue of their god was on the ground before the Ark of the Lord. So I guess the Ark did make a difference after all. I still hold to the validity of my last posting.
Anyway, no one seems to know how to appease God on either side, as the Philistines did one of the weirdest offerings that I have ever seen. Because of a plague, they sent back an offering of five gold tumors and five gold rats.
I’m not certain why the Philistines did this. I mean, if you had gold to give, then why in the world would you make it in the shape of a rat? I mean, I understand a Faberge Egg or a cheribum, but a rat? I mean, that is one of the most unclean animals in existence.
Not only that, they made golden tumors, for crying out loud! Tumors. Every time that I’ve read this, I’ve been wondering what the heck a golden tumor looks like. I mean, I don’t want to see a tumor that isn’t golden. So what did the sculptor do, just slap down a big blotch of gold and say: “That’ll do”.
In other words, it seems like a waste of pure gold. This is assuming that it was pure, but gold is gold, really. It doesn’t really say what happened to the gold rats or tumors. Were they melted down for cash, and then the proceeds given to the widows of the women who lost their soldier husband in the Philistine battle.
It reminds me of the reading in Psalm 8. I imagine that all of us has looked up at the sky full of stars and have felt like you were insignificant. Just today, I saw a rainbow in the sky that was huge. I was with my kids at the time, and the moment was truly magical.
Events like that always make me feel really small, like the writer of Psalms when he realizes “what is man that you are mindful of him”. However, the verse goes on to say that “you have made him [humanity] a little lower than the heavenly beings”. Some translations will say angels, but some will say “Elohim”, which is often a synonym in Hebrew for “Almighty”.
In short, man, despite his seeming insignificance, is worth quite a lot, like gold. And yet, I can’t help but feel like a gold rat or tumor, because there are times that just make me feel less godly.
Still, a gold tumor or rat is still made of gold. It is not the shape that is important, but what it is made of that counts.
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