So yeah, I've been thinking a bunch about "Tone" lately. Wondering if there's enough in such a word for a book. It seems like there's this thread of life found simply in tone. This blog for example, must have some application on your part, because you can't hear it. Some of you may hear this with anger, some with pride, some may add a British accent, when really I'm from Virginia. The list can go on and on.
The dialogue becomes fun when we add to this something as valuable as Scripture. In scripture you need to sort of mine for some non-verbal things to insert your own tones. Was he mad when he said that? Or was he laughing? I'm looking for cool non-verbal scenes in scripture.
One example is the scene with Jesus & the rich man, when he said: "Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor." Forever I chalked that guy off as a looser, until one day I ran into Mark's account (10:21). The verse says that Jesus "looked at him and loved him." Cool stuff there. It seams to change the tone a bit. All those years that the rich young man had walked away a loser were immediately transformed into the guy walking away having been loved by Jesus.
Now that's a cool tone to walk away with.
I'm sure there's more on tone later.
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Hey Freddy Nester!
Question: did he know that he was loved by Jesus or was he deafened by the volume of his "stuff"?
If he knew that he was loved by Jesus and still walked away was he a bigger loser? And if he was a big loser, then what does that make us when we choose to do the same thing?
We are blessed to know the empowering agent of the love of Christ fully revealed as the grace of God--why and how he loved us when we were ,and are, unlovely (and deafened by our "stuff").
Blog away Freddy!
Mark E.
I don't know if he knew or not. Maybe if he is anything like me he was looking down. And visually missed that glance of love because of his own guilt and shame. It's a really cool story these days to me. God's willingness to love us blows my mind.
A-Dios
Dean
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