Friday, May 01, 2009

Manoah and "his wife"

"As the flame blazed up from the alter toward heaven, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife fell with their faces to the ground. When the angel of the LORD did not show himself again to Maooah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was the angel of the LORD.
'We are going to die,' he said to his wife. 'We have seen God.'
But his wife answered, 'If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering from our hands, nor shown us these things or now told us this.' "

I love this woman! Crisp logic. I wonder why we don't get to know her name... we know Manoah, but he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

Perhaps that is the way of life. Some things are left to mystery.