Day 6

4:45 wake-up - back to school for K

Exodus 21

I have always struggled with this passage - it seems to affirm slavery and the rules around it. Maybe that's wrong - it certainly gives rules for ownership and accountability of the owner. It also gives the rules for how a slave is set free, and how one becomes a bond-servant. We must remember that God sets types before us here, so we can understand our relationship with Christ. One thing is for sure - God is not a communist!

Seriously, a couple more observations:

- The Lord uses the practice of case law
- God's Law is immutable and transmutable (probably not the right word) - it doesn't change, the context can change and it still applies. In this case, God doesn't endorse slavery, but provides principles around it that can be applied more broadly
- God first provides statutes to protect the most vulnerable - the slave and women. Protecting the most vulnerable is important to God

222#

I like the course I do here. Three times I get to ramp up this one short hill - very good for heart rate. Ran the last 100m.

Happy day. Still ruminating Ex 21.