Trying to catch up!
Catching up on my readings! Still a day behind. Will get all caught up at the airport in the morning.
Lev 17
Sin is expensive. Can I afford to indulge in it? It costs blood. Only blood can stone for it - the very life of something or Someone. I hope I can remember this when I need to - and be pricked in my heart by it each time.
Lev 18
Strange connection between sexual sin, the defilement of human beings, the defilement of whole nations, and the defilement of land. So serious! And God’s warning was that we mustn’t live like that, even if everyone else around us is.
I wonder what it means for the land to ‘vomit up its inhabitants.’
Vs 5: obedience = life
Matt 27
Hard chapter to read. Thank You for all the anguish you went through and put up with for me. May I not be found wanting.
Vs 45-50: Moved me to tears. The pain and anguish of staying in the cross when you want to jump off. The cries for help to God. The battle to do what is right, even if it means screaming out to overcome your flesh. Thank You, Jesus. May I be like You.
Just got back from a lengthy trip. Tired, and still a day behind in my readings. Let’s see if I can catch up on Sunday or Monday.
I had a few reflections on Leviticus, but with what energy I have left, let me focus on what spoke to me the loudest today.
Matthew 27:51-66
Joseph of Arimathea!
He caught my attention. Rich and a disciple of Jesus. I just love his personal vision for the Lord - and we all need to have one of more. Without ceremony, he got up and went to ask Pilate for the body of Jesus. He wasn’t a relative or a friend - ‘just’ a disciple. He bought clean linen to wrap the body and he carved out a tomb for Jesus himself. Then: ‘He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.’ He didn’t hang around, waiting for thanks or praise. He just quietly did what was in his heart to do, and left! That’s the spirit that we must all embrace. Looking out for opportunities to be useful in the kingdom without making noise. Doing certain things that are just between you and God.
Matt 28
The reward for faithfulness, for hanging in there, for enduring and trusting: ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’ Sweet when achieved, but hard to get there!
Mark 1
Vs 12-13: ‘At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness for 40 days, being tempted by Satan.’
40 days of pure temptation is no joke. I feel as though that’s where I am sometimes. Longstanding temptations with no easy way out. It’s encouraging to read that Jesus had to endure temptations over a lengthy period, too, and to be reminded that my temptations are as much about me as they are about Satan himself and his own personal agenda. Lord, may your angels attend me during this time.
Lev 17
Sin is expensive. Can I afford to indulge in it? It costs blood. Only blood can stone for it - the very life of something or Someone. I hope I can remember this when I need to - and be pricked in my heart by it each time.
Lev 18
Strange connection between sexual sin, the defilement of human beings, the defilement of whole nations, and the defilement of land. So serious! And God’s warning was that we mustn’t live like that, even if everyone else around us is.
I wonder what it means for the land to ‘vomit up its inhabitants.’
Vs 5: obedience = life
Matt 27
Hard chapter to read. Thank You for all the anguish you went through and put up with for me. May I not be found wanting.
Vs 45-50: Moved me to tears. The pain and anguish of staying in the cross when you want to jump off. The cries for help to God. The battle to do what is right, even if it means screaming out to overcome your flesh. Thank You, Jesus. May I be like You.
Just got back from a lengthy trip. Tired, and still a day behind in my readings. Let’s see if I can catch up on Sunday or Monday.
I had a few reflections on Leviticus, but with what energy I have left, let me focus on what spoke to me the loudest today.
Matthew 27:51-66
Joseph of Arimathea!
He caught my attention. Rich and a disciple of Jesus. I just love his personal vision for the Lord - and we all need to have one of more. Without ceremony, he got up and went to ask Pilate for the body of Jesus. He wasn’t a relative or a friend - ‘just’ a disciple. He bought clean linen to wrap the body and he carved out a tomb for Jesus himself. Then: ‘He rolled a big stone in front of the entrance to the tomb and went away.’ He didn’t hang around, waiting for thanks or praise. He just quietly did what was in his heart to do, and left! That’s the spirit that we must all embrace. Looking out for opportunities to be useful in the kingdom without making noise. Doing certain things that are just between you and God.
Matt 28
The reward for faithfulness, for hanging in there, for enduring and trusting: ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.’ Sweet when achieved, but hard to get there!
Mark 1
Vs 12-13: ‘At once the Spirit sent him out into the wilderness, and he was in the wilderness for 40 days, being tempted by Satan.’
40 days of pure temptation is no joke. I feel as though that’s where I am sometimes. Longstanding temptations with no easy way out. It’s encouraging to read that Jesus had to endure temptations over a lengthy period, too, and to be reminded that my temptations are as much about me as they are about Satan himself and his own personal agenda. Lord, may your angels attend me during this time.
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