OT DAY 193 - Major Threat to God's Willingness to Stay (Please click here for English podcast)

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Silence

1.   Put on your “brakes” and stop for a moment of silence

2.   Wait for God. Breathe deep for God's peace. Exhale your worries.

Praise and Thanksgiving

1.   Think through your day, all the times that made you smile

2.   Thank God for all those moments, and for all those people

3.   Open your heart to praise the Lord

      On God rests my salvation and my glory;

    my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

8 Trust in him at all times, O people;
    pour out your heart before him;
    God is a refuge for us. 

                             Psalm 62:7-8

                                                                       

Confession and Repentance

1.  Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in you:

     “Dear Holy Spirit, shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

2.  Through the Holy Spirit, examine yourself for a short silence and then pray:

     "Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for our sins and being victorious over death and sin. I confess my sin to you(pause, to tell Jesus what the Holy Spirit has shown you). Forgive my sins by your blood and help me follow you. Holy Spirit, fill me that I may be able to receive your gift to love God and His people. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen."

The Word (Leviticus 16:1-34)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 16&version=ESV

 The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died, 2 and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. ..
 “And it shall be a statute to you forever that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict yourselves and shall do no work, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you. 30 For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you. You shall be clean before the Lord from all your sins. 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever. 

                              Leviticus 16: 1-2, 29-31

Let's have a time to be still and give the Holy Spirit space to speak through the passage of scripture 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

My Listening
     Today's chapter is very important to the Israelites as well as to us. 

Let's see how Professor John Goldingay tells us: 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goldingay) :

    

     The Day of Atonement is indeed the holiest day of the year. Coming just after the celebration of the New Year and just before the Feast of Sukkot(Shelters), which again commemorates the exodus, it looks both backward and forward.  It clears the slate, so it is possible to go into the New Year with confidence because things have been sorted out with God.  In Leviticus, the focus of the occasion is cleansing the sanctuary.  God's presence or absence there means life or death to the community.  If God is there, they can go and meet with God, offer their worship, bring their prayers and their thanksgivings, and live in relationship. If God were to leave the sanctuary, the centre of their lives would have gone...
    They know, and God knows, that it is quite possible for junk between them and God to accumulate in such a way that God has to say, "I can't stay here any longer." The action of Aaron's sons reported in Leviticus 10 was one obvious major threat to God's willingness to stay; hence this chapter's starting point.  Maybe this rite initially relates to that event, but if so, it becomes an annual observance…
     Only in this chapter does Leviticus talk about Israel's "rebellions"; it is a strong term to describe its wrongdoing. 

John Goldingay. Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.157, 158.

      Can you imagine because of your rebellion God leaves you just like He left the Israelites after so many times of warning, using all kinds of ways including the Day of Atonement?
      Is there any junk in your life that accumulate in such a way that God has to say, "I can't stay anymore with you"? Are you able to know those junk? If you know, how are you going to do about that so that you can experience "God with you" each day?

Dear Holy Spirit, 
Shine your light into the places of darkness in my life. Show me my sins, everything that blocks me from encountering God. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.”

Reflect on these questions:

1. Is there any junk in your life that accumulate in such a way that God has to say, "I can't stay anymore with you"?

2. Are you able to know those junk? If you know, how are you going to do about that so that you can experience "God with you" each day?

Praise and Thanksgiving

Let's give thanks for God with us. Let us praise Him:

10,000 Reasons

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