My purpose is summed up in Micah 6:8.  “He has shown you oh man what is good, and what does the Lord require of you?  To do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” I remember several years ago that I had opened up a box of Scripture memory…

Job 42-1-6    Then Job answered the Lord and said: “I know that you can do all things,     and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,     things too wonderful for me, which I did not know….

      In reality, however, many of those in captivity are like those in Plato’s cave story.  The men in the cave took great pride in their eyesight and in their interpretive abilities—yet all the time they were looking at shadows, mere illusions.  Shadows created by the light of a fire set up behind them, their…