5/6/2009 9:35 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: The clean and the unclean
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Deuteronomy 14:3-21
Message of the verses: “3
"You shall not eat any detestable thing. 4 "These are the animals which you may
eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, 5 the
deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the
mountain sheep. 6 "Any animal that
divides the hoof and has the hoof split in two and chews the cud, among the
animals, that you may eat. 7
"Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which
chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the
rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the
hoof; they are unclean for you. 8
"The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it
is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their
carcasses. 9 "These you may eat of
all that are in water: anything that has fins and scales you may eat, 10 but anything that does not have fins and
scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you. 11 "You may eat any clean bird. 12 "But these are the ones which you shall
not eat: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, 13 and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in
their kinds, 14 and every raven in its
kind, 15 and the ostrich, the owl, the
sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds, 16
the little owl, the great owl, the white owl, 17 the pelican, the carrion vulture, the
cormorant, 18 the stork, and the heron
in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat. 19
"And all the teeming life with wings are unclean to you; they shall
not be eaten. 20 "You may eat any
clean bird. 21 "You shall not eat
anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your
town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a
holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its
mother’s milk.”
There is
some debate as to what exactly were the reasons why God gave these dietary laws
for the nation of Israel
One thing
for sure God wants His children to be different than the rest of those who have
not believed in Him. This was true of
the nation of Israel
Some people
today believe that by keeping to the dietary laws of the OT that they will be
healthier and that is an okay reason to follow those dietary laws, but that
would be the only benefit to follow them.
Paul writes about food in a number of his letters to churches and one of
the things that he brings up is that a person should not make it a stumbling
block to someone else about the food that he eats, for if a person does not
think that he should eat something because of a spiritual reason then another
person should not eat that in front of him for it may hinder their spiritual
growth.
As far as
not boiling a kid in its mothers milk there is not a good definition as to why
this was a law. Some think that the
heathens of this time did this and therefore the nation of Israel
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I think that what I get out of all of the
dietary laws is that I as a believer in Jesus Christ am to be different form
the world, not only in the things that I eat and drink, but in all other
aspects of my life and there needs to be a big improvement as far as that is
concerned.
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for worship and service.
- Trust the Lord to guide my path today.
- Continue to learn contentment.
5/6/2009 10:06 AM
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