Daily Reading
Daily Verse
You must not do as they do in Egypt,
where you used to live,
and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan,
where I am bringing you.
Do not follow their practices.
Leviticus 18:3
Daily Thought
I was a teenager sitting shotgun. Dad was driving. Stopped at a light, he turned to me and said, "Just don't." The light changed to green and off we went.
I'd just had my "sex talk."
The Bible says "Don't" quite a few times. Read Leviticus 18. Twenty times it says "Do not have sex with..." and finishes the sentence 20 ways.
Is that all God says? "Just don't."
No, not at all. Sex is God's idea, his creation.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good.
When God says "don't," he is peeling the rind off the orange. An orange is delicious, but you don't eat the rind.
We hear the opposite message from the world around us.
"Just Do It."
Eat the rind and then wonder why the fruit doesn't taste as good.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
--Genesis 2:24-25
To God's Glory,
Dave
Daily Prayer
God, You bring blessing and joy. You delight in Your work. Your will is Your pleasure. Your creation is full of beauty and majesty. You tell Your story in our history and You paint a work of art in this creation. We see in this world all the evidence we need of Your divinity, Your power, Your sovereignty, Your majesty.
And when You set us in this world, it was not only to care for it, but to enjoy it. You taught us how to enjoy it. Everything You create is good. And then there was that one thing. That very good thing. You brought us together, man and woman, and created marriage. God, may we show off Your goodness in all we do. May our marriages be very good.
Amen
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