Today, I am reading and commenting on Leviticus 26-27.

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As I was reading this passage, I had trouble connecting with it until I got to where God warned the Israelites what would happen to them if they abhorred His rules when He said, “Those who hate you shall rule over you.”  This led me to think about the quotes I keep hearing from politicians which imply that they hate the people over whom they govern.  Which led me to think about the things God promised to those who do as He commands, and His promises to those who reject His commands.  He promises that those who walk according to His statutes will have a surplus of food and will live in peace.  While those who will not listen to His commands will suffer disease, famine, and be overrun by their enemies.  Then I look at history and at civilizations which thrive, and civilizations which fall.  When I look at those which thrive, often I see a civilization where the people strive to do God’s will.  Then I look at those which fall, and I see a civilization where people abandoned doing God’s will.  And if I look a little closer at the thriving civilizations, I see people with flaws, people who strive to do God’s will, but have shortcomings and places where they fall short.  If the people look at where they fail to do God’s will and seek to correct their actions, the civilization continues to thrive.  Unfortunately, sometimes people look at the ways in which their forebearers fell short of doing God’s will and blame God for those failings.  Then instead of trying to do what their forebearers got right AND correct where they failed to do God’s will, they reject the idea of being obedient to God.  Since their forebearers were striving to do God’s will, they conclude that their shortcomings were also God’s will and therefore it was their attempt to do God’s will which led them to do wrong.

I wrote all of that, and there are flaws with it because it is difficult to apply the commands God gave for the establishment of the ancient nation of Israel to today.  In fact, the most important part of this is where, after the people have fallen so far from God that He has left them to rot in their enemies lands because of their iniquities, God says that if the people confess their iniquity, humble themselves, and turn back to Him, He will remember His covenant with Jacob.  So, while all of this is directed at the people of ancient Israel, it applies to us today.  If we turn from God, He will bring hardship on us to discipline us, to show us our sins, to try to guide us back to Him.  Those hardships will get worse until we turn back to Him and correct our ways.  Confess your sins to God, humble yourself, and turn back to Him, and He will bless you.

Lord, I confess that I have sinned against you, that I have not disciplined myself to work at doing your will, that I have failed to love you with all of my heart, and all of my mind, and all of my will, and all of my strength.  Pour your Spirit upon me and strengthen my resolve to do better at serving you.

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