God Will Command His Blessing!
I found this amazing verse today in Leviticus 25:21. God is giving instructions to Moses regarding the year of Jubiliee every 50 years, and the year of rest for the land every 7 years.
Here’s the verse:
“And if you say, ‘What shall we eat in the seventh year, if we may not sow or gather in our crop?’ I will command my blessing on you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years. When you sow in the eighth year, you will be eating some of the old crop; you shall eat the old until the ninth year, when its crop arrives.”
O’ may we live by faith, and live a life of radical obedience, knowing that all things are possible to him who trusts and obeys. For all things are from Him and to Him and through Him–to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
As Absurd As Blaming the Sun Rays
The following analogy by John Calvin attempts to help us understand the mystery of how God can be perfect in love and perfect in righteousness, and how at the same time God can ordain that evil exists or–even more mysteriously–cause evil to take place:
Whence, I ask you, comes the stench of a corpse, which is both putrified and laid open by the heat of the sun? All human beings see that it is stirred up by the sun’s rays, yet no one for this reason says the rays stink. Thus, since the matter and guilt and evil repose in a wicked man, what reason is there to think that God contracts any defilement if He uses his service (the evil man) for His own purpose?