Welcome back to Life of LAB, our 7day quick LAB series.   It’s day 4 in our theme of compare and contrast.   Today’s blog is titled, Favored vs. Favorable and it's truly a quick LAB . The original title was, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for life.” This work by Charles Darwin is now known simply as “The Origin of Species”. Long lost in translation, we are now left mostly with the religious sentiment, “I’m blessed and highly favored.”   Still "favored" by biblical standards has hardly been captured.   As Christians use their worldly favor and influence to separate themselves from those, be it Christian or otherwise, who don’t appear to be on God’s list of well-known and well-loved individuals; I am taken moreso by the context of the original idea, which is to be favorable.   Also, I’m struck by the life of Jesus, and taken by the great contrast in the life of what we know wa...