Sorry for missed day. Thought I had completed Sunday's post. Chapter 18 begins extolling the majesty of God. I type these words while in Las Vegas. In a few minutes, I'll be heading to Death Valley National Park. I've never been there before, but if it like most of the parks in this area it will be filled with natural desert beauty. One can certainly see the majesty of God in all the varying types of natural beauty: the vastness of an ocean; the tree covered Smoky Mountains; the rolling hills of Southern Indiana and Kentucky; the snow covered mountains of Alaska. It is easy to thank God for the beauty of the earth and to recognize his majesty in it.
Then Ben Sira shifts to the comapssion of God as if the beauty that God has given us is because of his compassion for us. An intereting thought to ponder. In verse 13 Ben Sira issues a challenge to us. He says that the compassion of human beings is for their neightbor. In other words we are to imitate God in God's compassion. Ben Sira challenges yet again to be "God-like" in showing campassion!
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