A friendly Reminder

I have been spending quite a bit of time in Leviticus as of late due to the chrono read schedule I have been following. Historically for me Leviticus has been one of those books that I have struggled to read through due to its repetitive nature. I would tend to just skim through it and thus get little to nothing out of it. This time through I have been forcing myself to pay better attention. This morning my assigned reading was chapters 19-21. It struck me that after each time a section of the law was stated it was followed by either, ''I am the Lord'', or, ''I am the Lord your God''. Why? Why would God repeat himself so often. Then I remembered that we are human, and as a human we tend to be very forgetful of who God is. OT Israel is a great picture of our forgetfulness. It was not very long after the exodus that the Israelites were grumbling. As a matter of fact they were even worshiping a man made image when God was present with Moses on the mountain! They could see the very cloud of God that covered the mountain and yet they forget. While it tends to be all to easy to look as the shortcomings of Israel and wonder, yet we need to look at ourselves and remember how forgetful we tend to be as well. How many times has the Lord blessed us and we like Israel forget. Even in the midst of blessing we forget! We need to be reminded that He is the Lord our God. We need to be reminded often He is the Sovereign, Holy, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Good, Awesome, Just, Vengeful, Wrathful, Unchanging, True, Creator God. He is God. Let us not forget. Let us read His Word, Pray without ceasing, meditate day and night, fellowship with His church, and share His love with others. Let us remember!

2 Peter 1:3-9

"His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection m with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins."

I was reading Paul David Tripps book ''Age of Opportunity and he has this to say about the above set of verses.

''God knows our weakness. He is aware of our sin. And He has given us glorious gifts of grace so that we can be His tools of change in our children's lives. We cannot give in to discouragement and hopelessness. Christ gives us reason for hope; hope that we can be effective and productive as we parent our teenagers. The gifts of grace that He gives turn weak and failing sinners into effective and productive children of the almighty God.''

I just love that. May it bless you as well.

A.W. Tozer

Just a quick quote-
''God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the devine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "O Lord thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them make theologians, but will never make saints.''