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Saturday, November 29, 2014

OT DAY 83 - If You Want True Love (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Starting last week we add one important thing to our daily devotion. We start our devotion with one to two verses from the Psalms to praise God. We always have so limited vocabulary when we want to praise God. Let's learn from the Psalms so that we can be able to praise God in a better way:

The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Psalm 19: 1

Today's Reading: Genesis 29:32-30:3

** If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method please read my “Count Down 5” from my Devotion on Fire blog:

http://bishopsilas.blogspot.ca/2009/08/count-down-5-subject-shifting-devotion.html

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.Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf

Please click this link to read Genesis 29:32-30:3

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 29&version=ESV

Chinese: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=創世記 29&version=CUV

Bible Study

This is a strange passage. It seems that the Bible shows us polygamy is fine and there isn't any true love. Is it really so, or is that our misinterpretation?

Let's take a look at what Professor John Goldingay says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

What is the place of love and commitment in a polygamous marriage? As in the case with Abraham and Hagar, sleeping with Bilhah (and later Zilpah) as well as Leah and Rachel does not imply Jacob is committing adultery. All four women are his wives. Genesis does not suggest polygamy is immoral, though it does recognize that its origins back in Genesis 4 were questionable…
A friend of mine who has worked in a polygamous context reported recently the comment of one of his students: that polygamy begins in lust and ends in pain. Here it begins in pain and ends in pain…
The scene reprises the one that describes how Abraham's servant found Rebekah, though it thereby draws attention to the differences from that scene. Abraham's servant is a gentleman; Jacob is a braggart. The first story kept referring to God's involvement; there is none of that in this story.

John Goldingay. Genesis for Everyone - Part Two. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.95-96.

In most countries, we don't have the problem of polygamy, but we do have lots of problems concerning with sex outside marriage. What is the right and good way to prevent this marital problem?

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage we have just read. Offer this time up to Jesus as you listen to him, while listening to "Gabriel's Oboe": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmax47l2hLU

Spiritual Journal

The title I heard from Jesus today is: If you want true love

What Jesus tells me today is the right and good way to prevent sex outside marriage. And, it is very simple:
1. Sex outside marriage begins in pain and ends in pain.
2. True love must have God's involvement.

Do you want a good and blessed marriage? You know what to do now, right?

Dear Lord Jesus,

Lead us to be close to you so that we can enjoy good and blessed marriage. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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