February 13, 2025
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Reading along with us in Deuteronomy and Corinthians? Here’s today’s reading:
Deuteronomy 24 (NIV)
1 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, 2 and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man,……Continue Reading
These various laws are more relational from marriage to treating others fairly. Caring for the poor and needy and not taking advantage of others. We serve a relational God who cares about our relationships with Him and each other. Money , wealth, power are all things of this world and when we use those things as motivation we will find ourselves in sin every time. But when God is our motivation we will put others first and we will find the fredom that comes from knowing He is in control and the momentary things of this world don’t matter therefore we should never use them as a way to hurt or mistreat others.
Deuteronomy 24
Deuteronomy 24
Deuteronomy 24
Treating the poor with justice. Who are we to say someone is poor because of incompetence or lazy. You have not walked in their shoes. Many bring victims of oppression and circumstances. Listening at Pastor Peter’s father’s funeral. The whole service I couldn’t stop thinking, what molded the thinking of that generation was they went through 2 world wars and a terrible depression era. How fortunate and spoiled we are to not have gone through such a time.
Deuteronomy 24
It makes sense that the law can be summarized by loving God and your neighbor as yourself. So much of the standards given make sense if we just think of others above ourselves and never press our advantage in the same way we wouldn’t want others to press their advantage with us. Purity and justice are important to God and that shines through here. God also sees the value and dignity of work and so he asks those who have to make things available for the poor, but the poor also have to work for what they get. Our society could learn a lot from this when we consider how the public welfare system keeps people dependent and takes away their dignity.
Deuteronomy 24
The giving a certificate of divorce section confuses me. I want to know, what did the woman do in that predicament?
When I read about the leaving of food for the poor, I can’t help but think of Ruth. Boaz was a good man. He went above and beyond.
”“When you reap your harvest in your field, and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.“
Deuteronomy 24:19 NKJV
”And when she rose up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her. Also let grain from the bundles fall purposely for her; leave it that she may glean, and do not rebuke her.”“
Ruth 2:15-16 NKJV