Differences in Strokes and Folks
At IHC this year, I heard a young boy's high, clear voice singing, "The old ledger is clear!" I don't know if I've ever seen an actual ledger. I guess a spreadsheet would be the modern equivalent. I wondered if he knew what an old ledger was. There were people listening to him sing who were blessed by the song. I can figure out what the image means--ledgers are where debts are recorded, and one way you can think about sins is as unpayable debts against God, so for your ledger to be clear means your unpayable debts have been paid by Jesus' death. But the image of a ledger doesn't connect with me. It doesn't bless me. That doesn't mean there's something wrong with the image. If I had grown up in a time when actual physical ledgers were used for the recording of debts, that image would probably connect with me. Maybe that has something to do with why it blessed some people at IHC. For someone who grew up going to camp meetings, camp mee...