How interesting!

For those of you who don't know about it yet, my "western themed" Pilgrim's Progress thing for the first day of VBS is online. I would seriously like some comments because so far all I've had is one person say "cool" and that's all the feedback. I'm concerned that it's too boring to hold the attention of the children, that it's too long, that more western themed things could be brought in, that more changes could be made. The link is at:
http://www.box.net/shared/tixa6z5nfj

But what I really wanted to do is share some thoughts from Henry:

Regarding Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan that David asked for, found, and brought into his house to eat at his table, Henry states:

"Now because David was a type of Christ, his Lord and son, his root and offspring, let his kindness to Mephibosheth serve to illustrate the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards fallen man, which yet he was under no obligation to, as David was to Jonathan. Man was convicted of rebellion against God, and, like Saul's house, under a sentence of rejection from him, was not only brought low and impoverished, but lame and impotent, made so by the fall. The Son of God enquires after this degenerate race, that enquired not after him, comes to seek and save them. To those of them that humble themselves before him, and commit themselves to him, he restores the forfeited inheritance, he entitles them to a better paradise than that which Adam lost, and takes them into communion with himself, sets them with his children at his table, and feasts them with the dainties of heaven. Lord, what is man, that thou shouldst thus magnify him!"

I thought it was interesting to compare man's impotence due to the fall, to Mephibosheth's impotence due to his fall.

Another neat comment came from 2 Samuel 10. David had heard that the Ammonite king had died and since he had showed some kindness to David at one point, David sent men as ambassadors to comfort this king's son. The king listened to his advisors however and they cut off half of their beards and their cloaks and sent them away calling them spies. David then gathers his army and the king suddenly realizes that he doesn't have enough men. Henry states:

"Yet it seems, they had not considered how unable they were, with their thousands, to meet his; for now they found themselves an unequal match, and were forced to hire forces of other nations into their service. Thus sinners daringly provoke God, and expose themselves to his wrath and never consider that he is stronger than they, 1 Cor x.22."

That is all.