Lots of Thoughts

What is wrong with this world?

Leviticus 13

This was quite a long chapter, mostly pertaining to infectious skin diseases.  Verses 45-46 relate back to the story of the ten lepers.  A leper must live alone, outside the camp, with torn clothes and unkempt hair.  In addition to this, afflicted persons were required to cover their mouths and holler 'Unclean!' everywhere they went.

Sound familiar?

Grungy hair...ragged clothes...alone outside...

Sounds like someone is homeless.

Think about it for a second.  Doesn't every homeless person you see look like this?  And doesn't everything about them scream "UNCLEAN?!"

Yet these are the very people Christ sought out.

I did not intend to talk about this chapter this much.  But I like it!

I continue tonight from Proverbs 31.  I don't know who Lemuel was, but I assume his life was blessed if he listened to his mom at all.

O my son, O son of my womb,

O son of my vows,

do not spend you strength on women,

your vigor on those who ruin kings.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel-

not for kings to drink wine,

not for rulers to crave beer,

lest they drink and forget what the law decrees,

and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

Give beer to those who are perishing,

wine to those who are in anguish;

let them drink and forget their poverty

and remember their misery no more.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,

for the rights of all who are destitute.

Speak up and judge fairly;

defend the rights of the poor and needy.

-Proverbs 31:2-9



Dear Lord,

Please come to the aid of those who are so desperately calling out.  Often, unbeknownst to us, our souls cry out for you to save us from ourselves.

Fancy words do not work with you.  You see behind any facade we put on in front of people.  You know our hearts, our very souls.  You know all of my insecurities and fears, my hopes and dreams.  Please Father, awaken these dreams within me once again.

Teach us to dream once again.

Show us how to shatter our feeble, limited perceptions of who you are, and instead decide to seek your face earnestly.  We want to see your glory, to enter the Holy of Holies.  We long to be free from the constraints of our feeble flesh.  Open our eyes, Father, to the WAR that rages around us.  Show us the souls that are thirsty for living water and hungry for the bread of heaven.  Reveal to us things that are ETERNAL, that we may fix our eyes on you.

You know, Father, that my thoughts are cluttered and burdensome.  I long to call out to you day and night.  Save us according to your unfailing love.  Without you we are certainly lost.

Thank you for Jesus.

-G