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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, July 6, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :The Story of Abraham [11] Bible Verse:Genesis 15:7-11 (ESV) "And God said to Abram, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” But he said, “O Lord God, how am I to know that I shall possess it?” He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” And he brought him all these, cut them in half, and laid each half over against the other. But he did not cut the birds in half. And when birds of prey came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. " Message:
The Scripture reminds us, yet again, that the manuscript we are reading is incredibly ancient. The concept that we might worship God by killing animals — by cutting fully grown large animals such as cattle and sheep in half to put on an altar — is beyond bizarre to us, and would be outright repugnant to some. Modern Americans, Western Europeans, Indians, and many other societies associate animal sacrifice with hokey, superstitious witchcraft sects, such as Santeria and Voodoo.
A segment of modern society considers killing animals to be immoral. There is actually some Biblical authority for treating animals humanely; the law of Moses required that animals be slaughtered in the most humane way possible to them and strictly forbade consumption of bloody meat. This was quite an important law and strictly followed; remember from Acts, that one of the few requirements the Council of Jerusalem placed on allowing Gentiles to join the church was that they cease eating bloody meat or meat from animals slaughtered inhumanely. (Acts 15:27-29)
If God is Your Copilot, Switch Seats
Kindness to animals, even to the point of not wanting to see them killed, bespeaks a kind and loving heart; but eating meat is not a moral issue in Christian theology. We do not take our morality from our emotions! Our morality is external, coming from God; for our heart and mind will invariably lead us astray.
Christianity neither discourages nor encourages vegetarianism. What Christianity does require is that we not quarrel over it, or pass judgment on one another’s eating habits. “Let not the one who eats [meat] despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him.” (Romans 14:3)
Note that, at the end of today’s passage, Abram drives the birds of prey away from the sacrifice. This is a nice bit of symbolism, for the Hebrews will spend the next 1500 years violently defending the worship of the Lord from a constant stream of powerful idol-worshiping empires. Twice they will face nearly total defeat, including slavery and removal from their homeland (by Egypt and Babylonia), but salvation by faith would arrive with divine certainty — even in the face of political slavery.
Meditation : Prayer : And finally, grant me O Lord, I pray, the lamp of charity which never fails, that it may burn in me and shed its light on those around me, and that by its brightness I may share a vision of that holy City, where dwells the true and never-failing Light, Jesus Christ our Lord......Amen |
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