Day 15
Genesis 31:1-55; Matthew 12:1-21; Psalm 9:13-20
When God is at the centre of everything it starts to make a bit more sense!
Over the last two days we have followed the shenanigans between Jacob and Laban and the promise of all the speckled sheep. Things were not really good between the two of them and if they had been 5 year old children you may even have heard cries of “he started it”, “no, he started it”. But God finished it, and he told Jacob to get out and go back home. But it didn’t stop there, because Rachel decided that she wanted to take her dad’s little God’s with her. Check out Soul Survivor's description but I’m getting the image of the little garden Buddhas that you can get in B&M! So Rachel, bless her, disappears with the solar powered Buddha and Laban is naturally annoyed, so goes after them. He’s also not too chuffed about the fact that he didn’t get chance to say goodbye to his family. And again things break down between Jacob and Laban. This is where we really see what happens when God is allowed to get back in the centre. Jacob sets up a mini altar space and the others do likewise and they focus on God and not their feud. Result? Peace!
And then the Gospel where the Pharisees are notorious for focusing more on the rules than on God. First they see the disciples snacking on the Sabbath and they are incensed. It was not wrong to eat on the Sabbath but the disciples were picking their food, and that was work. So the Pharisees point Jesus to the rules and challenge him. Jesus however points the Pharisees to the scriptures. David and the bread is 1 Samuel 20 & 21 where there is another tricky situation but the Lord is with David. And then to the times when the priests are with the Lord and the Lord has decreed that they may eat on the Sabbath.
The Psalm speaks to us of the Lord arising so that man may not triumph, that it is in his presence that nations will be judges. Jacob puts God back at the centre, Jesus puts God back at the centre, and the Psalm has God arising anew. Where is God in your life at the moment, because when we put him back in the centre, things tend to have a new perspective.
“ Jesus, be the centre© 1999 Vineyard Songs, Michael Frye
Be my source, be my light
Jesus
Jesus, be the centre
Be my hope, be my song
Jesus ”
When God is at the centre of everything it starts to make a bit more sense!
Over the last two days we have followed the shenanigans between Jacob and Laban and the promise of all the speckled sheep. Things were not really good between the two of them and if they had been 5 year old children you may even have heard cries of “he started it”, “no, he started it”. But God finished it, and he told Jacob to get out and go back home. But it didn’t stop there, because Rachel decided that she wanted to take her dad’s little God’s with her. Check out Soul Survivor's description but I’m getting the image of the little garden Buddhas that you can get in B&M! So Rachel, bless her, disappears with the solar powered Buddha and Laban is naturally annoyed, so goes after them. He’s also not too chuffed about the fact that he didn’t get chance to say goodbye to his family. And again things break down between Jacob and Laban. This is where we really see what happens when God is allowed to get back in the centre. Jacob sets up a mini altar space and the others do likewise and they focus on God and not their feud. Result? Peace!
And then the Gospel where the Pharisees are notorious for focusing more on the rules than on God. First they see the disciples snacking on the Sabbath and they are incensed. It was not wrong to eat on the Sabbath but the disciples were picking their food, and that was work. So the Pharisees point Jesus to the rules and challenge him. Jesus however points the Pharisees to the scriptures. David and the bread is 1 Samuel 20 & 21 where there is another tricky situation but the Lord is with David. And then to the times when the priests are with the Lord and the Lord has decreed that they may eat on the Sabbath.
The Psalm speaks to us of the Lord arising so that man may not triumph, that it is in his presence that nations will be judges. Jacob puts God back at the centre, Jesus puts God back at the centre, and the Psalm has God arising anew. Where is God in your life at the moment, because when we put him back in the centre, things tend to have a new perspective.
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