An accident or ‘I didn’t mean to do it’ only applies if it’s not a repeated pattern. Today’s bull has been a problem before. We need to keep an eye on track records more than we do.
“If anyone’s bull injures someone else’s bull and it dies, the two parties are to sell the live one and divide both the money and the dead animal equally. However, if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring, yet the owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must pay, animal for animal, and take the dead animal in exchange.” Exodus 21:35-36
This follows in the same vein as yesterday’s blog ‘If you’ve seen a hole then don’t take your eye off it.’
If no one could have predicted this bull fight then God splits the loss evenly.
However, if one of the bull-owners knew this was a possibility, their bull was displaying out of the ordinary behaviour, then that’s a different story.
Once you know, then you know the possibility, so if it happens you have no excuse.
What’s your bull?
We all make mistakes. We all sin. We all know what it is to lose our temper or to say what we later regret.
But if we become known by this, if this is part of our life, if we just seem to constantly be fighting something or someone, then God has something to say to us? Known danger is a choice.
What’s the bull you’ve stopped pretending you didn’t know about?
