OT DAY 196 - You Can Always Do A Better Job to Love God And His People (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

     So I will bless you as long as I live;

    in your name I will lift up my hands.

5 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food,
    and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips,
6 when I remember you upon my bed,
    and meditate on you in the watches of the night;

                             Psalm 63:4-6

                                                                       

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 19:1-18)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus 19&version=ESV

 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3 Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am theLord your God.

5 “When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 

 16 You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand up against the life of your neighbor: I am the Lord.

17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

                              Leviticus 18: 1-5, 16-18

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
     Leviticus 19-22 consists of a good number of strong imperatives. We don't like other people to use strong imperatives to speak to us. But, God wants to do that in order that He can be our God. 

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

    

     Leviticus offers two considerations to motivate you in your relationships, especially when there is conflict. One lies in the way it describes other people in the community.  They are your neighbours  fellow members of the community; the community will collapse if people are not on speaking terms with one another…Usually instinct tells us to be committed to members of the family and more tolerant of them, and the Torah invites us to make that our model for relationships in the local community…
     God's distinctiveness also lies in qualities such as integrity and love, and Israel is expected to mirror those.  Reminders such as "I am God" also recur in this section of Leviticus.  The logic is the same as that in the Ten Commandments: "I am God, and I am your God, and I claim the right to tell you what to do, so just do it even if you don't like it."  That will be the way you go about "revering" your God. 

John Goldingay. Exodus and Leviticus for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.165,166.

      Today's is a day for you to face the reality of one thing. The Ten Commandments commands us to love God and His people. Do you really living out that?

      Are you living a holy live, offering everything you can offer to God?

      Have you spread slander among your people recently?

      Have you done anything or say anything to endanger someone, your family, your church recently ?

      Do you have some people you hate recently? 

      Do you grumble recently? 

      Face the reality now. You can always do a better job to love God and His people. Are you willing? 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Open our eyes to see the reality that whether we really are loving You and Your people. Help us to do a better job from now on. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.”

Reflect on these questions:

1. Do you agree that you are not doing a good job to love God and His people? 

2. How can you do a better job from now on? 

Praise and Thanksgiving

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

10,000 Reasons

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