It's All Greek to Me!

It's public confession time...

As some of you may know, I have been trying to learn Greek. Well, I should actually state that I have made a decision to learn Greek because the "trying" part is not actually happening! Which is the reason for this post. You see, over the last three or four months I have not picked up my book on Greek at all! So even though I was going about boasting to my wife that I knew the alphabet and the first three or four verses of John 1 (O how the proud fall!), I tried to recite the alphabet to myself today and I could not do it without looking at my notes! :(

Well, I am giving public notice to everyone that I am going to return to my Greek lessons again beginning tomorrow during my lunch at work. I will not give up...I hope! :)

Seriously though, for those of you who know me, feel free to hold me accountable and to admonish me...though keep it nice 'cause I am pretty sensitive. And truly, I know I will never be a master of the Biblical languages, but I have a desire to someday read the book of John in the Greek, so that is what I am going to do, the Lord willing and the flesh not being too weak! As for that other language, the one revived by those hardy Israelis (formerly known as Israelites!), I won't even try to go there. For that one I will have to rely totally on those who have been blessed with the brain power for picking up languages.

So that's my rant tonight. A rant aimed solely at myself. Though I guess I could blame those Greeks for not having had the sense to come up with an easier language to learn! As some of our KJV-only brethren might say, "if the King's English was good enough for Paul it's good enough for me!" Then again, I don't know the King's English very well either!

God Bless!