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As part of this nation, you have been given mercy. And mercy is a gift best passed along.”
I blinked at the dichotomy. These Hebrews ate the most mouthwatering food every single day and yet it had become mundane to them. They had forgotten the pleasure of its taste and texture. Bread was supplied from the heavens each day, but they were blind to the amazing miracle of it.
Amazing how we can get so used to God’s blessings that we take them for granted.
“Someone once told me that Yahweh would make himself known to me, if I searched. And he did. Perhaps he will make himself known to you.”
"...seek and you will find..."
Matt. 7:7
What a strange notion, that a god would call to someone. As if a deity would somehow speak to a lowly mortal. To a woman. To me.
Strange, indeed.
I have brought you here for a purpose. I will go before you and behind. I will surround you, no matter where you go.
Odd how much had changed in my perspective since Yahweh had healed me, as if someone had poured warm oil on my heart, making it pliable, shaping it into something new and unexpected.
We serve the God who made the mountains. We serve the God who rescued us from Egypt with the very unraveling of the Creation he began. We serve the God who built the foundations of the earth with a mere word.”
Yahweh is a God who values life, and from the beginning, when Cain slew Abel, he insisted that those who spilled the blood of innocents be brought to justice.
America and all of the nations that support abortion on demand have a lot to answer for.
Rahab is described as a prostitute in the Bible, someone whose life was undoubtedly defined by sin and pain, yet was given the opportunity to shed her past, find new life, and be called an ancestor of the Messiah. How does the way God used Rahab for his purposes and glory, even in her brokenness, encourage you?
It tells me that no matter how broken or damaged you are, God has a plan for your life and can use you.
