Linda Swanigan's Blog – September 2007 Archive (1)

GOD LOOKED AT ADAM AND SAW A WORLD. HE LOOKED AT ABRAHAM AND SAW NATIONS. IN JACOB, A DECEIVER, HE SAW A MESSIAH. IN MOSES THE MURDERER, GOD SAW A DELIVERER. CAN YOU IMAGINE LOOKING AT A STAMMERING YOUNG MAN AND SEEING THE GREATEST LEADER IN HISTORY?

GOD SAW A KING IN A SHEPHERD BOY. WHEN THE ISRAELITES WANTED A KING, GOD SENT SAMUEL TO THE HOME OF JESSE. WHEN JESSE HEARD WHY SAMUEL WAS THERE, HE DRESSED UP ALL HIS SONS, THE HANDSOME ONE, THE TALL ONE, THE CURLY HAIRED ONE, THE STRONG…