Okay since I didn’t sleep last night for working on code, and I didn’t sleep today for lack of common sense, I’m too tired to do any reading today. However, I never really did a real entry for yesterday, and I did read yesterday.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn my sleep-deprived state, the one thing I clearly remember from my reading yesterday was Revelation 1:17<\/a> — the first half of the verse in another version (NASB) reads: “When I saw Him I fell at His feet like a dead man.”\n<\/p>\n \nIf memory serves me, the Greek actually says “fell dead at his feet” or something like that, so one take on the verse I heard was that the sheer glory of the Lord caused his heart to stop. I don’t doubt that that could happen, and could be what happened here, but I always like to think of it slightly differently.\n<\/p>\n \nPeople in Biblical times had a much healthier fear and respect for the Lord. It’s quite possible that, realizing he’d just seen God, his natural reaction was to fall down in worship.\n<\/p>\n \nI bring this up becuase I honestly can’t imagine that happening today. I don’t remember the last time met anyone with a healthy respect for authority, let alone that kind of respect for God. I find myself wondering if any of us would even think to bow. It’s kind of sad, really.\n<\/p>\n \nI’m looking for comments on this one… do you think you would bow in the presence of God out of reflex?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Okay since I didn’t sleep last night for working on code, and I didn’t sleep today for lack of common sense, I’m too tired to do any reading today. However, I never really did a real entry for yesterday, and … Continue reading