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Friday, January 9, 2015

OT DAY 124 - Do You Revere God? (請按此處收聼廣東話Cantonese podcast click here)

Let us praise the Lord:

“Be still, and know that I am God.
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth!”
11 The Lord of hosts is with us;   the God of Jacob is our fortress.

Psalm 46:10-11

Today's Reading: Exodus 9:22-35

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Please click this link to read Exodus 9:22-35

Chinese(CUV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=出埃及記 9&version=CUV
English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus 9&version=ESV

Bible Study

Pharaoh was having a confession after the seventh plague. But when everything was over, he and his officials hardened their hearts again. Do you think you would be the same? Yes, you will, unless ...

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

God suspects a mismatch between words and heart, and Moses wisely suspects the same mismatch in Pharaoh. He does not yet "revere" God. The previous time Exodus used this verb it described the midwives who on this basis took no notice of a previous Pharaoh's instructions…
Every time God acts in mercy on Pharaoh it gives him a real chance to change. Moses knows that Pharaoh does not yet revere God. Not yet. It could still happen.

John Goldingay. Exodus & Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.46.

Do you revere God? How does today's passage teaches you how to know that you really revere God?

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: Do you revere God?

What I receive from Jesus today is a simple but profound question. What is your answer?
In most translations like ESV, NIV, NRSV use "fear", the Message uses "have no respect for". It is not difficult for us to say that of course we fear God, revere God, respect God. The reality might be just like what Professor Goldingay says, "a mismatch between word and hearts".
I do not know how many times you have tried to change after some kind of crisis and when that is over you have not changed. What I can tell you toady is that your word and heart should match together, if not you would suffer as Pharaoh suffered greatly!

Do you revere God?

Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to live out and not just say we revere God. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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