In yesterdays reading, as the Lord was pleading with Israel and using agricultural metaphors, He said,
12 I said, ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness,
and you will harvest a crop of love.
Plow up the hard ground of your hearts,
for now is the time to seek the LORD,
that he may come
and shower righteousness upon you.’
Today’s highlighted proverb:
11 Timely advice is lovely,
like golden apples in a silver basket.
Yesterday’s 3X emphasis was ‘Don’t be like the hypocrites. And we heard the Lord’s prayer. The first line of the Lord’s prayer, ‘hallowed be Thy name’ can be taken (as I did in yesterday’s reading) as a metonymy for the person of the Father, not just his name. Yet we must remember that one of the 10 commandments is to not take the name of the Lord in vain. So there is concern in the Scripture also that God’s name would be held in reverence.
No comments:
Post a Comment