October 7, 2010
Today's reading was all about preparing the different groups to worship the LORD in the temple that Solomon was going to build. What really struck me is the scripture the Life Lesson sent me to.
Isaiah 45:9 - "How terrible it will be for those who argue with the god who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, 'What are you doing?' The thing that is made doesn't say to its maker, 'You have no hand.' "
Luke 12:47 - "The servant who knows what his master wants but is not ready, or who does not do what the master wants, will be beaten with many blows!"
Wow. There is so much to digest in these two scriptures. "How terrible it will be," for those who decide to be their own boss instead of submitting to God's authority. "Beaten with many blows!" It goes on to say in the next verses that it would be so much better to have never known what God wanted you to do because the punishment would be so much less severe.
Oh, the audacity to think we know more than the One who made us. Talk about pride! The statement "among many pieces," creates such a word picture. Pride causes the rebellion and what does it get you? Nothing. Worse than nothing. You are like all the other broken pieces, indistinguishable from the others.
Next Entry: I Chronicles 28:1 – 29:30
Today's reading was all about preparing the different groups to worship the LORD in the temple that Solomon was going to build. What really struck me is the scripture the Life Lesson sent me to.
Isaiah 45:9 - "How terrible it will be for those who argue with the god who made them. They are like a piece of broken pottery among many pieces. The clay does not ask the potter, 'What are you doing?' The thing that is made doesn't say to its maker, 'You have no hand.' "
Luke 12:47 - "The servant who knows what his master wants but is not ready, or who does not do what the master wants, will be beaten with many blows!"
Wow. There is so much to digest in these two scriptures. "How terrible it will be," for those who decide to be their own boss instead of submitting to God's authority. "Beaten with many blows!" It goes on to say in the next verses that it would be so much better to have never known what God wanted you to do because the punishment would be so much less severe.
Oh, the audacity to think we know more than the One who made us. Talk about pride! The statement "among many pieces," creates such a word picture. Pride causes the rebellion and what does it get you? Nothing. Worse than nothing. You are like all the other broken pieces, indistinguishable from the others.
Next Entry: I Chronicles 28:1 – 29:30
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