Wednesday, January 28, 2015

OT DAY 143 - If You Obey Me Fully (請按此處收聼廣東話 )

Let us praise the Lord:

Trust in him at all times, O people;
    pour out your heart before him;
    God is a refuge for us. 
                                             Psalm 62:8
Today's Reading: Exodus 19:5-8

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      After God reminds the Israelites of how He carries them on eagles' wings, He said something very important. If they obey Him fully and keep His covenant, then they will be His people. They will be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. What does that means to you? 


Let's take a look at what Professor John Goldingay says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :
    
       When God made a covenant with Israel's ancestors, it was 99 percent a commitment purely on God's part, a specific requirements laid on Abraham except that the males should be circumcised.  The situation has now changed.  God has initiated the process whereby the covenant promise is being fulfilled The people are on their way to the country God promised them
       So now God can reasonably think that the commitment between God and Israel should become more mutual.  If the Israelites also now keep the covenant, as God has, they can have a special position in connection with God's purpose in the world.  "Priestly kingdom" and "holy nation" is a twofold way of describing the same thing...There is a sense in which they are a nation like any other nation, and in due course they will be ruled by kings and be a kingdom like any other kingdom; but they are a holy nation and a priestly kingdom
      Their being a priesthood stands in some tension with their being a kingdom.  Being a kingdom means one person has supreme power.  Describing them as a kingdom of priests reminds them that they all have a close, priestly relationship with God…
      It is easy for pastors and people to think that pastors have a special relationship with God, but God implies that this is not so.  Pastors may have power, but all the people have the special relationship.      

John Goldingay. Exodus & Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.76-77.





       Do you understand now what would happen to you and your family if you obey God fully? And what if you only obey Him partly?   


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 Felix Mendelssohn's On Wings of Song played by one of the greatest violinist Isaac Stern:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yj3RSxZmBQ

Spiritual Journal

    The title I heard from Jesus today is: If you obey me fully

    What I receive from Jesus today is the answer to many Christians about why they can't experience God as some other Christians experience. Quite a number of people asked me, "Why I can't listen to Jesus' voice as other brothers and sisters? Why I can't experience God like that? Why my life can't be changed like that…
     Well, you can ask more questions and you still don't know why. Only if you start to totally trust God and obey Him fully, you won't be able to understand and to experience. If you say you are going to obey Him fully, then God will give you some kind of tests to see if you really are able to obey Him fully.
     If you fail on those tests, God will give you more chances. But, nothing will happen until you pass one or a few tests He prepares for you.
     See how the Israelites replies to God to say:
"All that God spoke, we will do."
     Really?!
     Hope you can say that and really be able to do what God wants you to do recently. 
    
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to pass the test you put in front of us recently to show that we really obey you fully. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.


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