for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience." Paul has just called greed idolatry.…for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience." Paul has just called greed idolatry. God's anger is not a mood swing, it is love refusing to shrug at what is killing you. And read on: "You also once walked in those." He is not pointing at strangers. He remembers where you came from.
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Daily curiosity · Friday, September 25
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Why did it take a father in law from outside Israel to teach Moses how to lead?
The answer is in Exodus 18:19 ↓
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Harvest in the Bible
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Ruth 2Leave the edges of your field unharvested
Leviticus 23God repays the years the locusts ate
Joel 2Those who sow in tears reap singing
Psalms 126The farmer who built bigger barns overnight
Luke 12You will reap whatever seed you sow
Galatians 6The harvest is huge, the workers few
Matthew 9Trusting God's care while waiting
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What touches you in Scripture? What can we pray for? What can we thank God for?
Thank You that nothing is hidden from Your sight, that all things are naked and laid open before Your eyes.…Thank You that nothing is hidden from Your sight, that all things are naked and laid open before Your eyes. I am grateful I can stop performing, stop hiding the parts of me no one else sees, and still be welcomed by the One who knows every bit of it.
Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and…Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks." Judah thought there was a crack deep enough to hide in. There wasn't. But read the promise just before it: he would bring them back again. Sometimes being found by God feels like being hunted. It is how the way home begins.
Father, the world offers me a hundred names to live by, and some of them sound convincing. Keep my feet…Father, the world offers me a hundred names to live by, and some of them sound convincing. Keep my feet on your path anyway. When others walk their own way, let me walk with you, today and all the days after this one.
Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?" Habakkuk cried…Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?"
Habakkuk cried "How long?" back in chapter one. Now the plundered nations cry it too, and God hears it both times. Notice what happens to the man who piles up what was never his. The pile becomes the thing that buries him.
What are you still holding that isn't yours?
Keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be…Keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you." Jesus doesn't say ask once. He had just told of a man pounding on a neighbor's door at midnight, refusing to go home. So maybe the prayer you're weary of repeating isn't unheard. Knuckles that keep knocking are their own kind of faith.
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