11/8/2008 9:24 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Dispensing God’s justice
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Leviticus 24:23
Message of the verse: “23
Then Moses spoke to the sons of Israel Israel
This
section is about capital punishment, and in the case that is spoken about in
verses ten through twenty-three it was a capital crime to take the name of the
Lord in vain and thus the person who did this was put to death and that ended
this matter.
God has
never taken away capital crime in the Scriptures for the taking of one’s life,
for the murder of another person. In the
OT times there were “cites of refuge” that a person could run to if he killed
another person and then the family of that person who was killed could go to
the city of refuge and present the facts of what happened to the judge there
and if the person was found guilty they would be executed by stoning them. If the person was found innocent they would
have to stay in that city of refuge until the high priest died, and if they
left before the high priest died then the family could capture and stone him.
Dr. Wiersbe
states that the reason for capital punishment is because all people are created
in the image of God and thus if a person is killed the person who has murdered
that person should be executed. He goes
on to say that there are no statistics to show that if capital punishment is
taken away from a society that the crime of murder is lessened, however I am
not sure that I agree with that.
There are
people who commit crimes everyday that get away with them, including murder,
but there is a coming day when all wrongs in this world will be made right, and
all people will have to bow their knees at the feet of Jesus Christ, and it can
be done in this life or in the life to come, but if is done in the life to come
that person will spend eternity in hell.
There is a chance for everyone to hear the truth and accept it or deny
the truth and suffer the consequences later on.
This whole
chapter is about the Holiness of God, as it began with holy bread and holy oil
and ends in holy judgment for blaspheming a holy God.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: There are many times in my life when people
have done wrong things to me, and in the case of our retirement funds there has
been a great injustice done to us because of that, yet I have to continue to
trust the Lord to make this right either in this world or the one to come and
not be bitter over all of the wrongs that have been done to me. “Never take your own revenge, beloved, but
leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I
WILL REPAY," says the Lord.”
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Trust the Lord to do as He has promised in Romans 12:19.
Memory verses for the week: Romans
6:1-4
- What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase?
- May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?
- Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into his death?
- Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
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