Do you want the answer to the Bible riddle?

Ok! Here it is - it's Jonah's "whale"

Meditation aid

Scripture is not just for our amusement.   It is for our learning,  so I must ask myself some questions to make sure I act upon what I read.

As you meditate on this passage of Scripture, is there:

• a sin I should keep away from?

• a promise I can call my own?

• a command for me to obey?

• a blessing I can enjoy?

• a failure from which I can learn?

• a victory for me to win?

• a new thought about God, the Lord Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Satan, man?

• a truth in this passage that has greatly affected me?

 

Bible Riddle

Here is a Bible Riddle, if you can figure it out send me an email.

Pastor

Adam, God made from the dust,
But thought it best to make me first.

So I was made before the man,
A part of God's most holy plan.

A living "soul" I became,
But Adam failed to call my name.

I did my Maker's law obey,
Nor ever went from it astray.

Thousands of miles, I go in fear,
But seldom on earth do I appear.

For purpose wise, which God did see,
He put a living "soul" in me.

A "soul" from me God did claim,
And took from me the "soul" again.

So when from me the "soul" had fled,
I was the same as when first made.

Without hands or feet I go,
I travel on from pole to pole.

From my presence a rain does fly,
A cloud I form beneath the sky.

I labor hard by day, by night,
To fallen man I gave great light.

Thousands of people, young and old,
Did by my death great light behold.

No right or wrong can I conceive,
The Scripture I cannot believe.

Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.

Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bible with all speed.

For that my name is written there,
I do honestly to you declare.

Holiness to the Lord!

Nu 5:2 Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.  4 And the children of Israel did so, and put them out without the camp: as the LORD spake unto Moses, so did the children of Israel.  

Mariam resisted Moses and became a leper.   Moses interceded and she was healed by the mercy of God.    Leprosy is a picture of the defilement that comes because of sin.  So in Numbers chapter 5 verse 3 God is implementing more than just disease control.  He is instructing with a picture of how God sees sin and the fact that it must be put out of the camp or it will spread.   

Pr 9:8  “Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.”

Pr 22:10 “Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.”

God does not tell us to rebuke a scorner,  He tells us that they must be cast out.   Some sins seem to come from a heart that will not follow God nor can be corrected.  

Brother and sister don’t white wash your sin – cast it out.   How can God be in our midst if we allow sin into our life?    Later in Israel as they allowed all kinds of sin in the camp the presence of God is not there.   How we need the close fellowship with God!