The Bible In A Year 268
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Isaiah 56-58, Romans 1:18-32
32 thoughts on "The Bible In A Year 268"
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Isaiah was a bit of a wake up regarding Sabbath. Life has felt busy and full all week, every week for a long time and I see why God gives us that time to refocus/rest. Time to get back to it.
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This spoke to me as well! Thank you for sharing!
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Isaiah 58 was a word today! Whew! I love reading it in NIV or something then switching over to MSG. It synthesizes it so well for me. Y’all should try it if you don’t already.
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Isaiah 57 talks about lust and Israel offering themselves as prostitutes. I’m humbled to think how often to I seek other gods like pride/ recognition, food, and selfish comforts. God has such a heart for us to seek Him first. And then all these things shall be given unto you. Delight yourselves in Him, and He will give you the desires of your heart. Lord, help me seek You first and may You be my delight! May I honor the Sabbath because it’s Your day and that’s a delight.
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romans 1:32 … giving approval to those things God disapproves of. that fits perfectly into our ‘sexed up’ culture right now, doesn’t it?
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Paul lists 21 sins that cut off people from the life of God. Not just sexual immorality, but also unrighteousness, evil, greed, wickedness, envy, deceit, malice, gossip, slander, hating God, arrogance, pride, boasting, inventing evil, disobeying parents, lack of discernment, untrustworthiness, unloving, and unmerciful, and sexual immorality.
It’s a little disingenuous to focus on the one sin you find most repugnant when there are plenty of others with the same consequences.
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Well said Lauren!
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I had the same thought Colleen, particularly with church leaders giving approval to the sexual immorality that the Bible clearly calls out as sin. While I agree with Lauren, that we can’t focus on and condemn others for one thing out of the “list” and must examine our hearts for where we fall short (I am guilty of a few in that list), it is still a correct observation that our culture, along with cultures throughout history, fall short and need God’s grace. For me the question is what I do with that – certainly I shouldn’t condemn, but am I called to pray, to speak up (in love) or to take some other action? May God show each of us when we are stirred by this or any other issue what His reason for stirring us is. I am being convicted as I write this as I am often tempted to put things in the “too hard” basket.
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15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
“I dwell in the high and holy place,
and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
to revive the spirit of the lowly,
and to revive the heart of the contrite.This verse gives us a very important piece of God’s heart. The same God who is above everyone and lifted high meets us at our low places! He does not wait for us to meet Him up high where we cannot reach, He joins us! How humble! He loves us so much
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Bookmarking Isaiah 58 to study this Sunday regarding the Sabbath. Any disciplines you all carry on the Sabbath you’d like to share? I attempt “screen-free Sunday” but it feels more legalistic than a fast now.
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Some kids at my church don’t do homework on Sundays. So they have to be disciplined throughout the week to get it done before Sunday! I try to do that most weeks, but I’m not always consistent
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mce, I think that it’s very personal..and things done on the Sabbath should be done to draw us closer to God. If you go screen free (which is a very relaxing thing to do) and it allows you to be more aware of God’s presence and the people around you, then I don’t see that as legalistic. I do think the Holy Spirit prompts us for what we know in our hearts that we need/want to work on to get closer to God. If the screen free thing is pressing on your heart, there is probably a reason that is beyond being legalistic. Just my two cents. :-)
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Well said Leah – I like that perspective.
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11 And the Lord will guide you continually
and satisfy your desire in scorched places
and make your bones strong;
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water,
whose waters do not fail.
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I love that God has always included the foreigners and sojourners who want to follow Him (like Ruth), and that His character is and has always been the same! I love the true fasting of Isaiah 58- the humbling and pouring out of self for the sake of others, especially the oppressed and the underdog. And this not FOR salvation, but BECAUSE of it! God is so good!
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Amen!
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