Gonna miss my boy - Day-Off Meditations
Am about to go on a twelve day trip to Pretoria and Cape Town tonight. Will miss being with Vito under our usual tree on my Sabbaths. He really likes this spot. I like it too.
I've been thinking again about Leviticus 26:4-12 - whenever I am discouraged I reread these verses that assure me of God's great promises:
"I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.
Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land. WOW!
‘I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove wild beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country.
You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you. WOW!
‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. WOW!
You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. WOW!
I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people." WOW!
The DOUBLE WOW of these promises is how we get them. And its not by doing more or even trying harder. It's by "Observing the Sabbath." I have learned over the years that the Sabbath was ordained by God to renew, restore and recreate our lives. So come to Jesus, He is after all the Lord of the Sabbath.
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