Third week of scriptures for sisters and nieces

By Maggie

This week’s readings were harder for me to understand but I will do my best.

Exodus 23:1-2 “You must not pass along false rumors. You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stand. You must not follow the crowd in doing wrong.”

I so often in life find myself sitting around with my friends while they are in a conversation talking about others and I join them rather than getting up and not including myself in that conversation or even better telling them it is not the right thing to do and is hurtful to the other person. It is not the right thing to do but we often find our self in that situation. I actually just recently found myself on the other end of it. I was in the other room and heard someone that is close to me talking about me. I was extremely hurt and now am asking God to help me forgive that other person. I think that God has our best interest in mind when he tells us not to do these kinds of activities.

Exodus 9-14 I really like how important prayer was to Moses. This passage shows us that through prayer anything is possible. We just need to remember to ask God for what we need. I also think that I often remember to pray for things I need but forget to thank God for his many blessings on my life. This coming week I am going to focus on thanking God for his many blessings on my life.

Exodus 34:6 “Yahweh! The Lord! The God of compassion and mercy! I am slow to anger and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness”

I want to be slow to anger. I find myself getting angry very easily. God is so good and loving.

I had a very hard time reading the rest of Exodus. I guess I don’t understand why the descriptions were so in depth in the bible. All the measurements were so hard to follow and understand. What can I learn from all of the rules on how to give sacrifices and how to build the temples? I feel like I am really missing something in these scriptures.

This was in my bible and kind of helped me but I still feel like I’m missing something.

Exodus 40 Exodus began in gloom and ends in glory. The Israelites were once Egyptian slaves making bricks without straw. Now they’re free and on their way to the land God promised them. This parallels our progress as Christians. We begin as slaves to sin, are bought at a price by God, and end our lives on Earth with the promise of living with God forever. Is that a promise you’re counting on?

Leviticus 1-5 Again I had a hard time reading through these chapters as well. The one thing that stood out to me as I read this was that I am so thankful that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. I could not imagine having to give sacrifices for our sins. The song that stood out to me this week was by Carrie Underwood. It’s called Jesus take the wheel. Although it’s about a girl getting into a car accident I really feel like it fits in my life at this time. I want to surrender my entire life to God and have Jesus take the wheel in my life.