Curate Conundrums

  When you look back on your life how many promises have you made? One hundred, one thousand, one million? Perhaps some of them are to yourself, others might be to other special people in your life. Perhaps some of them might be legal. For example promising to pay a mortgage, or in my case abiding by that restraining order… In all seriousness we all make promises all of the time. I’m sure you could list them if you had time and a piece of paper. Promises are important, and we should try to keep them faithfully. Though, sometimes we don’t. Lent is a time of promises . When we say we will try to turn away from sin, perhaps we’ve given something up, or promised to take something else on. But here’s a question, have you ever made a promise to God? Because God’s made a promise to you. Abram had been walking with God a long time. He’d been following God and finally when he was 99 years old God visited Abram and said, I’m making a promise to you. I’m making a special promise with you

  If you were to describe me, what would you say? What words would spring to mind? Young? Dashing? Handsome? Irritating? What words would you use to describe yourself? We’re all a mixture of things. We all have an identity, or a series of identities. Some of them are true, others are false impressions of who we are. Jesus has an identity and it’s clear. As one who has always been. We say it in the creed all the time. We believe in One Lord Jesus Christ, the only son of God etc, begotten not made etc. But have we sat down and thought about what that means for us, and why it’s important? What that means for us as people of God? What that means for our identity? So proverbs then. A great book of the bible, that’s all about wisdom. In it Wisdom is described like a person, or an entity. This bit of Proverbs is probably one of the most famous bits. It’s a hymn of praise all about Wisdom and Wisdom’s place in the world and creation. Wisdom has its own identity, She has always been