Monday, February 29, 2016

Feb wk 4 Reflections - More insightful ways to learn to live

OT narrative
- REALITY BITES! Lets not be prideful as a mans life is nothing but a chaff.
- Wonders of Olive oil in the olden days: Why hasnt this biological wonders been publicized?
- GUILT OFFERING:  boils and skin disease caused by acts not pleasing to the Lord????
- SCAPEGOAT does exist till today!
- LGBT in Leviticus is very explicit!
- PSALM 41 reverberates in my heart. Even your so called BFF can indeed turn against you. What I learned in this life - value your direct family members. They are with you no matter what. !
- With all the laws and regulations in Leviticus - what IF we follow them?>
- The Lord said " KEEP MY DECREES, SO THAT...". For sure it would not hurt if we as His creations try to keep his. Im sure it will be close to impossible - but doable.

PSALM 39:5Everyone is but a breath,  even those who seem secure.[bPROVERBS 10:12: Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs.Leviticus 15:21He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task. 22 The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.Leviticus 18:22 “‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman;that is detestable.Psalm 41All my enemies whisper together against me;they imagine the worst for me, saying,“A vile disease has afflicted him;he will never get up from the place where he lies.”Even my close friend,someone I trusted, one who shared my bread, has turned against me.


NT narrative
- Prophet without honor. This rings a bell. People will always associate people with their ancestors, where they come from, not what they have achieved nor what they have become. It is a sad reality and truth that we must come to terms.
- Guilt took the better of rulers: Herod did a detastable act of marrying his brothers wife thus ordered the killing of John the baptist!
- Feeding the five thousand: the magic number of God rings true yet again: 5+2 equals 7. Five loaves plus 2 fish! Also 12 basketfull of leftover, which probably represents 12 tribes of Israel.
- Walking on water: why is it that an actual account of Jesus miraculous walk on water is being used as symbology today to doing the impossible?
- Feeding four thousand according to Mark - still there were 7 leftovers of basket. And 7 breads were broken! Again, its the Lords magic number 7!
- For what profits a man who gains the whole world but loses his own soul.



Mark 7:15Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this. 15 Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” [16] [f]

21 For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.” In saying this, Jesus declared all foods clean

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