9/25/2008 9:38 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Natural female discharges
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Leviticus 15:19-24
Message of the verses: “19 ¶
‘When a woman has a discharge, if her discharge in her body is blood,
she shall continue in her menstrual impurity for seven days; and whoever
touches her shall be unclean until evening.
20 ‘Everything also on which she
lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which
she sits shall be unclean. 21 ‘Anyone who touches her bed shall wash his
clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening. 22
‘Whoever touches any thing on which she sits shall wash his clothes and
bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
23 ‘Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on
which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until
evening. 24 ‘If a man actually lies with her so that her
menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on
which he lies shall be unclean.”
This
section talks about the normal monthly period that a woman gets that was
designed by God in order for the woman to become pregnant and thus keep the
human race going. There is nothing wrong
with all of this, but God would set up some laws that governed this. These laws were made for the good of all and
especially the woman who would be going through all of this. There would be no sexual activity going on at
this time for it would be more painful for the woman at this time and what she
needed was rest because of what was going on with her. All of the uncleanness that is spoken of here
is ceremonially uncleanness. The Rabbis
said of verse twenty-four that a Hebrew man would never force himself upon a
woman when she was having her period, but this was put in there incase the
woman would get her monthly period while engaging in sexual activity. The cleanliness was also an issue for this
time for both the woman and all who would come in contact with her at this
time. It is somewhat different in
today’s society in the Western world because of all the new devices that help
to keep a woman cleaner at this time.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I would like to look back at when God created
both man and woman and He said that it was “very good” after creating mankind
and so what both the woman and the man go through as a result of this creation
was how God intended it.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Trust the Lord to give me the grace to go through the things that are not so pleasant to go through at this time of my life.
- Trust the Lord to teach me contentment and for me to learn to be content.
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Put on the spiritual armor today because I am in a battle.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus 20:8-12
8.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10. but
the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God, in it you shall not do any
work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or
your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
11. For
in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in
them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day
and made it holy.
12. Honor
your father and your mother, that the days may be prolonged in the land which
the Lord your God gives you.
9/25/2008 10:05 AM
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