February 18: God is With You

Affirmation: I nourish my body, mind and soul. 

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Ponder: Continue to memorize the verse and ponder what you can learn about God and yourself in these words.

Zephaniah 3:17 

“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” 
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Tommy Walker. Speak to Me

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Praying the Message of Jesus: A Year of Thoughts and Prayers

by Eugene Peterson

                       Feb 18

Divorce 

"Remember the Scripture that says, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him do it legally, giving her divorce papers and her legal rights'? Too many of you are using that as a cover for selfishness and whim, pretending to be righteous just because you are 'legal.' Please, no more pretending. If you divorce your wife, you're responsible for making her an adulteress (unless she has already made herself that by sexual promiscuity). And if you marry such a divorced adulteress, you're automatically an adulterer yourself. You can't use legal cover to mask a moral failure.'' 

MATTHEW 5:31-32 

The guardian commandment on love, designed to protect intimate personal relationships, in practice had become the occasion for casuistic legalism. Jesus returns our attention to people and what happens to them.

 

What is wrong with divorce?

 

God, I know that you give commandments as tools that express your love, share your grace, and communicate your will, not as formulas for making me righ­teous. Help me to use them your way. For Jesus' sake. Amen.