June 7, 2013 – Jeremiah 8 - 9

It talks about not trusting neighbors and sometimes it seems like we have taken the advise.  I didn't really grow up with neighbors.  Our closest ones were a 1/4 mile away.  But I have neighbors now and try my best to communicate with them, but I seem to be a rare bird.  Most people I talk to have gove years without out saying much more than high or bye to their neighbors.  This is truely sad and makes me wonder why people want so badly to live in subdivisions.  If you aren't going to get to know your neighbors, rely on each other, what is the point.  Like I said, I didn't have neighbors, but I can't imagine it used to be like this.  I can imagine a time when you knew every house that was around you and became almost an extended family.  That is where support came from.  It is no wonder that as our lack of neighborly friendship grows so does our reliance on government assistance. 

There is another reference to being circumsized only in the flesh.  When you are made aware of it, you start to see that this imagery is used all the time.  It is really no surprise that Christ would use the same imagery or that the early Christians would point to this when debating about the need for physical circumcion.