Verse Of The Day

May 11, 2008

I know that I am kinda late with this one, today being almost over and all.
But I am still doing it.
BTW
Happy Mother's Day!!! To all the mother's out there.

Verse
I thought about doing a special one today being Mother's Day and all, but no time so here goes the next book of the Bible:
Leviticus 26:1-13
Reward for Obedience
1 " 'Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the LORD your God.

2 " 'Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

3 " 'If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, 4 I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. 5 Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.

6 " 'I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. 7 You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. 8 Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.

9 " 'I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. 10 You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. 11 I will put my dwelling place [a] among you, and I will not abhor you. 12 I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. 13 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.


This section is interesting seeing all that the Israelites started with: wealth, blessing after blessing from God, their enemies being pursued by them- and them being short so many compared to their enemies; in a realistically played out battle, that would usually never happen, those with the numbers would overpower the smaller and win, not being in bondage under Egypt, and so much more that isn't even mentioned.
Did they thank God, yes of course they did, but think about how often it mentions them complaining to Moses- in a sense God-, when yes maybe they didn't really have any food, or maybe they were thirsty and needed fresh water to drink?
So, if they wouldn't have complained, and would've just prayed, and thanked God that they were still alive, he would've given them what they needed, all they had to do was ask basically.
Don't you think that they would've learned that by now. Sorry I'm kinda going down a Rabbit trail mentioning stuff from previous chapters.
But, how often do we just genuinely thank Him and trust that He will provide us with everything? Speaking for myself, I do thank Him, but not as much as I should, and yes I trust that He will provide what I need, but not in His time, in my time, I want it now.
Another thing that is interesting about this is that the next section of the chapter is titled Punishment For Disobedience ,
so God doesn't just tell them all the happy, fun loving stuff, and then move on.
No He nails them with all that will happen and go badly if they don't follow Him and obey. Here is a sample: verse 21 "If you remain hostile towards me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve..
I haven't read all of it but, do you think that the Israelites really paid attention to all of what God is telling them now, or did they just take the prosperity and safety for granted?

Poetry
Todays poetry is by: Auberne' Ancalimon

Fall

Cast away like a damp old rag,
the summer is gone, leaving the fall to come.
With it's brittle leaves and darken sky,
I will sit by my fire, sipping my tea.
And reading a book of sunny day's gone.


Thanks Auberne' its awesome!!

Quotes of the Day
Todays quotes have also been contributed by Auberne' Thanks again!!

"Every blade of grass has it's angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow." --- Talmud

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." --- Albert Einstein


That is it for today, thanks again, enjoy and Happy Mother's Day, again!!
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Till next time,
Imagination