OT DAY 284 - Treat Your Neighbours As Your Family (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 and feel His presence. 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

        
             The Lord works righteousness
         and justice for all who are oppressed.       Psalm 103:6

                
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 (Deuteronomy 22:1-4)

English(ESV): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy 22&version=ESV


“You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep going astray and ignore them. You shall take them back to your brother. 2 And if he does not live near you and you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home to your house, and it shall stay with you until your brother seeks it. Then you shall restore it to him. 3 And you shall do the same with his donkey or with his garment, or with any lost thing of your brother's, which he loses and you find; you may not ignore it. 4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way and ignore them. You shall help him to lift them up again."

                   Deuteronomy 22:1-4

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"

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My Listening

      Today's passage talks about how God commands the Israelites to treat their neighbours. How do you treat your neighbours? Do you know any of your neighbours well? Actually, do you know any of your neighbour? 

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

    

     One could see the opening instructions as concrete illustrations of what loving your neighbour means. The context of that command in Leviticus 19 makes clear that it has in mind the way your neighbour can be your enemy. The same would likely apply here. You hardly need to be told to care about your neighbour's animals if the two families get along fine. But if you are fed up with your neighbour's son's practicing his drums when you've gone to bed, when his animal is in trouble you may well be inclined to look the other way. The same applies if you simply don't know whose animals they are.  Why should you not just mind your own business? To hold you back from those reactions, Deuteronomy typically describes this person not merely as your neighbour but as your brother.  

John Goldingay. Numbers & Deuteronomy for Everyone. Louisville,KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010, p.167.

      Is it possible for you to treat your neighbours as your family? What is the one step you can do to move towards this new direction from God's command? 

Dear Lord Jesus, 
Help us to be willing to treat our neighbours as our families.  In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

Reflect on these questions:
1. Do you know to love God and your neighbours as yourself is God's greatest command? Have you got a new understanding to this familiar command? 

2. Is it possible for you to treat your neighbours as your family? What is the one step you can do to move towards this new direction from God's command? 

Praise and Thanksgiving

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

10,000 Reasons

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