10/14/2008 6:42 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Precepts relating to others
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Leviticus 19:19-29
Message of the verses: “19
¶ ‘You are to keep My statutes. You
shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field
with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material
mixed together. 20 ‘Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who
is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor
given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put
to death, because she was not free.
21 ‘He shall bring his guilt
offering to the LORD to the doorway of the tent of meeting, a ram for a guilt
offering. 22 ‘The priest shall also make atonement for him
with the ram of the guilt offering before the LORD for his sin which he has
committed, and the sin which he has committed will be forgiven him. 23
‘When you enter the land and plant all kinds of trees for food, then you
shall count their fruit as forbidden. Three years it shall be forbidden to you;
it shall not be eaten. 24 ‘But in the fourth year all its fruit shall
be holy, an offering of praise to the LORD.
25 ‘In the fifth year you are to
eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the LORD your
God. 26
‘You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor practice divination or
soothsaying. 27 ‘You shall not round off the side-growth of
your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.
28 ‘You shall not make any cuts
in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the
LORD. 29
‘Do not profane your daughter by making her a harlot, so that the land
will not fall to harlotry and the land become full of lewdness.”
Most of
this section goes along with the theme from yesterdays SD. There is kind of a strange verse or two in
this section that commentators have difficulty with in knowing its
meaning. Verse nineteen speaks of not
breeding two kinds of cattle and also not sowing two kinds of seed in one’s
field. In Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary on
these verses he says that one of the reasons for doing this would be to show
that Israel
Verses
twenty through twenty-two and also twenty-nine speak of sexual laws, one has to
do with having intercourse with a slave and the other has to do with not having
a Hebrew father make a harlot out of his daughter. In that case you would have to wonder what
kind of a father would do something like that.
There is
also a section about growing fruit trees and when a person could expect to
harvest the fruit for himself. The first
three years there shall be no harvesting of the fruit, and the forth year it is
given to the Lord as first fruits, and then in the fifth year the fruit can be
used by the owner of the tree.
Verse
twenty-six tells again not to eat meat with blood in it and not to practice
divination or soothsaying, while verse twenty-seven and twenty-eight speak of
grooming one’s beard and not cutting one’s body or having a tattoo.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I know that some of these laws seem a bit
strange and some of them were only for Israel, but God has a reason for all the
things that He does and is concerned for His children and would never give a
law that would cause His children to stumble away from Him for that would not
be in His character.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- I think that I have learned from this section that I am to trust the Lord even when I do not understand Him or His laws.
Memory verses for the week: Exodus
20:12-16
12.
Honor your father and your mother, so that your
days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
13.
You shall not murder.
14.
You shall not commit adultery.
15.
You shall not steal.
16.
You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
10/14/2008 7:24 AM
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