Moved To Think: I think Rehoboam was a fool
Moved To Think
I place for me to work out random thoughts. Thoughts about the Savior, Jesus Christ, thoughts marriage and kids, thoughts about cartoons and CPU's and odd looking people I see on the side of the streets. Thoughts that move me to think for more than a fleeting second. The kind that gets stuck in my mind and won't leave till I work them out with some clarity.
I think Rehoboam was a fool
He was a fool because he acted foolish, he was a fool because he spoke foolishly, but mainly, he played the fool because he looked to a bunch of fools for advice. In the defining moment of his reign, this was the path he choose:
2 Chronicles 10:8 - "But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him."
I find that like Rehoboam, our society has so little value for the advice of "the elders". And to me, that's really a sad commentary about the independence and pride that we all nurture from childhood.
"I'll make my own path, I'll tread my own way." What I think we are really saying is "I'll make my own mistakes, I'll hurt my own people, I'll disgrace and defame the name of the Lord my own way. No one needs to tell me how to do it."
I work with some pretty amazing "elderly" (by age, not by vigor nor by zeal) gentlemen, and I try to eat up as many of their "back in my time ..." stories as I can. And when I do, I try to remember that the wonderful thing about "experience" is it's redeeming factor, because whether good or bad the first time through, each successive time it is relived and retold, that "experience" has almost all positives and very little negatives for me to glean from. I can learn from their victories and I can learn from defeats. It's a wonderful thing!
Therefore, I think those that would ignore the advice of "the elders" are fools!
(I wonder how many times I've been a fool like this. Far too many!)
Posted by Julee Huy at 6:37 AM
Tony Huy March 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Wow! A blog & a link to it on Facebook. Poking people on Facebook and writing down thoughts on paper. Who are you and what have you done with my husband? I look forward to hearing more of your heart and your thoughts, but not MORE about Transformers and GI Joes and Spiderman because I do believe we have far too many of those terribly immature conversations already. I just praise God that we have 4 boys to take some of the cartoon load off of me! :)
Briana "Symmie" Simmons March 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM
YAY Tony is a blogger! I am SO scared...I will now see what you think? I don't know about that :) haha.
Hey, on the side you said you are a husband, father of 5 and what more is there to say? HUHLOOH!!! You have the privilege of being MY COUSIN!!! Thats very important :)
I think Jehoram is not a name you want for your so...
I think fixing things can be fun
I think it's time to join the blogging world
Moved To Think: I think Rehoboam was a fool
Moved To Think
I place for me to work out random thoughts. Thoughts about the Savior, Jesus Christ, thoughts marriage and kids, thoughts about cartoons and CPU's and odd looking people I see on the side of the streets. Thoughts that move me to think for more than a fleeting second. The kind that gets stuck in my mind and won't leave till I work them out with some clarity.
I think Rehoboam was a fool
He was a fool because he acted foolish, he was a fool because he spoke foolishly, but mainly, he played the fool because he looked to a bunch of fools for advice. In the defining moment of his reign, this was the path he choose:
2 Chronicles 10:8 - "But he rejected the advice which the elders had given him, and consulted the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him."
I find that like Rehoboam, our society has so little value for the advice of "the elders". And to me, that's really a sad commentary about the independence and pride that we all nurture from childhood.
"I'll make my own path, I'll tread my own way." What I think we are really saying is "I'll make my own mistakes, I'll hurt my own people, I'll disgrace and defame the name of the Lord my own way. No one needs to tell me how to do it."
I work with some pretty amazing "elderly" (by age, not by vigor nor by zeal) gentlemen, and I try to eat up as many of their "back in my time ..." stories as I can. And when I do, I try to remember 
that the wonderful thing about "experience" is it's redeeming factor, because whether good or bad the first time through, each successive time it is relived and retold, that "experience" has almost all positives and very little negatives for me to glean from. I can learn from their victories and I can learn from defeats. It's a wonderful thing!
Therefore, I think those that would ignore the advice of "the elders" are fools!
(I wonder how many times I've been a fool like this. Far too many!)
Posted by Julee Huy at 6:37 AM
Tony Huy March 26, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Wow! A blog & a link to it on Facebook. Poking people on Facebook and writing down thoughts on paper. Who are you and what have you done with my husband? I look forward to hearing more of your heart and your thoughts, but not MORE about Transformers and GI Joes and Spiderman because I do believe we have far too many of those terribly immature conversations already. I just praise God that we have 4 boys to take some of the cartoon load off of me! :)
Briana "Symmie" Simmons March 26, 2009 at 12:00 PM
YAY Tony is a blogger! I am SO scared...I will now see what you think? I don't know about that :) haha.
Hey, on the side you said you are a husband, father of 5 and what more is there to say? HUHLOOH!!! You have the privilege of being MY COUSIN!!! Thats very important :)
I think Jehoram is not a name you want for your so...
I think fixing things can be fun
I think it's time to join the blogging world