Sep 14, 2022
HOSEA 11-12:
In yesterday’s reading, as the Lord was
pleading with Israel and using agricultural metaphors, He
said,
Hos.
10:12-13 NLT … ‘Plant the good seeds of righteousness,
and you will harvest a crop of love.
Plow up the hard ground of your hearts,
for now is the time to seek the Lord,
that he may come
and shower righteousness upon you.’
13 “But you have cultivated wickedness
and harvested a thriving crop of sins.
You have eaten the fruit of lies—
trusting in your military might,
believing that great armies
could make your nation safe.
PROVERBS 25a:
Today’s highlighted proverb:
Pro.
25:11 NLT Timely advice is lovely,
like golden apples in a silver
basket.
MATTHEW 6b:
Yesterday’s three-times emphasis was “Don’t be
like the hypocrites.” And we heard the Lord’s prayer. The first
line of the Lord’s prayer, ‘hallowed be Thy _name_’ can be taken as
a metonymy for the person of the Father, not just his name. So I
translate this famous verse like this: “Our Father in heaven, [may
all people honor You as the Holy God//may You always and everywhere
be regarded as holy].” Even so, we must bear in mind that God shows
great concern for his name in the Old Testament— beginning in the
Ten Commandments. If that phrase is translated with that in mind,
it could also be translated, “May your name always be spoken with
respect befitting your holiness.” Both ideas may be in view in that
first line of the prayer.
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