I have always thought
we need more punctuation marks. One to show sarcasm for instance. As it is, we
really only have three ways to end a sentence. Even those are fairly new. The
question mark came about in the middle ages when scholars would write the Latin
‘quaestio’ at the end of a sentence to show that it was a question, which in
turn was shortened to QO then to ?..
Yet a lot can be said
with those. For example, when Victor Hugo wrote his publisher about the sales
of his book Les Misérables, he simply wrote”?”. They responded “!”.
Years ago, I hear
someone proclaim “never put a question mark where God has put a period”.
That’s very good advice. Also, we might say don’t let what the Bible says is an
Exclamation point become a question mark. Too many times we know what the Word
says but our reaction to it puts a different spin on it. We react as if the
Good News isn’t that at all.
As it is we would do well to remember the word
of James 1:22, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving
yourselves”. Our words might be right but they can be useless if we don’t
punctuate them with action.
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