We had a family dinner for Mother’s Day and after I spent the night with my 19 year old granddaughter in her campus apartment at OSU. The next day was a “Moms and Grandmothers Muffin Breakfast” at my youngest grandson’s (her brother’s) elementary school and it was loverly! I so treasure the family that God gave me!!! Can I say though that at 73 it is always good to be home :)
Jeremiah 22:13
“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his chambers by injustice,
Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,
God requires us to love and care for all of His creation.
Not only our families but all families as well. Jesus spoke of the two rules that are outward proof of our love for God. We love Him above all and we love our neighbors as much as we do ourselves. In caring for others we fulfill all of His commands. Micah 6:8
When we come to the place in our lives where we desire what He wants more than what we want, there is great peace. It is here that God can use our ordinary lives in extraordinary ways to bring glory to His name and His Kingdom forever. First5
Grace calls something—invites something beautiful—from each one of us, and grace never leaves until the invitation is heard and embraced. It may shake up our life, there's no doubt about that. We're not used to being unconditionally loved.
I don't know where you see Grace in your life. I do know we don't cut ourselves enough slack, and I do know that when Grace appears, it's best if we don't analyze it, but just... pause, and let it seep into the core of our being. Sabbath Moments
To relax is to disengage and let go. An hour or day long Sabbath is not the time to catch up with your work. It is a time to entrust your work to God. After all, he worked for six days and then rested, and the world didn’t fall apart. It won’t for you either. Max Lucado
Micah 3:9–11
9 Now hear this, You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And pervert all equity,
10 Who build up Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 Her heads judge for a bribe,
Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord, and say, “Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.
”The New King James Version
Micah is filled with mighty justice while the leaders of Israel abhor justice. The wicked leaders pervert the way of righteousness. Making judgments based on money is the opposite of true justice. Faithlife Study Bible
The wicked leaders and prophets of Israel “worked” only when they could gain something from it. Needless to say, if justice had to be paid for, it would not be justice.Many people of Jerusalem believed that they would not be affected by God’s judgment because God Himself dwelled in the holy temple in Jerusalem. They reasoned that despite their evils, as long as God was in His temple, they were safe—even from divine judgment.
What the people refused to believe was that God might leave His temple because of the sinfulness of the people. The Book of Ezekiel describes a vision of the glory of God leaving the temple as a prelude to His judgment on the city. The NKJV Study Bible
Zion’s walls owe no thanks to those that build them up with blood and iniquity. The sin of man works not the righteousness of God. Even when men do that which in itself is good, but do it for filthy lucre, it becomes abomination both to God and man. Faith rests in the Lord as the soul’s foundation: presumption only leans upon the Lord as a prop, and would use him to serve a turn. If men’s having the Lord among them will not keep them from doing evil, it never can secure them from suffering evil for so doing. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Isaiah 1:23
Your princes are rebellious,
And companions of thieves;
Everyone loves bribes,
And follows after rewards.
They do not defend the fatherless,
Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.
Jeremiah 6:13 |
“Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is given to covetousness;
And from the prophet even to the priest,
Everyone deals falsely.
Habakkuk 2:12
“Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!
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