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FOCUSED ON THE FINGER
When I was a boy, I played ball with my dog. He was a good retriever, but he would occasionally lose sight of where the ball went. He would come back to me, tail wagging and tongue hanging out “Rusty, over there!” I would say enthusiastically, as I pointed in the proper direction. But, have you ever tried to tell a dog where to go by pointing? IT never seemed to work. He would just come closer and sniff my finger. “No, no,” I would say, “not my finger.” Over there.” But again he would sniff my finger and give it a lick My dog just couldn’t understand the significance of what I was doing. My finger wasn’t the thing I wanted him to concentrate on; it was what my finger was pointing to that was important. We laugh at the dog’s failure to understand a pointing finger, but I believe we have done the same thing with several Biblical…