Deuteronomy 18:15-20
Moses spoke to all the people, saying:
"A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen.
This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb
on the day of the assembly, when you said,
'Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God,
nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.'
And the LORD said to me, 'This was well said.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin,
and will put my words into his mouth;
he shall tell them all that I command him.
Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name,
I myself will make him answer for it.
But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name
an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak,
or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.'"
"A prophet like me will the LORD, your God, raise up for you
from among your own kin;
to him you shall listen.
This is exactly what you requested of the LORD, your God, at Horeb
on the day of the assembly, when you said,
'Let us not again hear the voice of the LORD, our God,
nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.'
And the LORD said to me, 'This was well said.
I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin,
and will put my words into his mouth;
he shall tell them all that I command him.
Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name,
I myself will make him answer for it.
But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name
an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak,
or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.'"
When I read these lines it just blows me away that God loves us so much. I mean, look at the world. We mess up so much stuff and love so little yet God keeps sending people to us so that we may turn off our path of self-destruction and start loving each other and Him as we should. Ever have a friend that stabbed you in the back? You used to be such great friends, but then they hurt you so bad you couldn't stand to be around them? Did you ever go back to them and try to repair the friendship? What if they kept hurting you over and over again? Could you still try and reach out to them. I am blessed with 6 children. I can't think of anything that they would do that would make me walk away from them, and I have gone pretty far down the dark "what if" hole. I guess that is how God is. Though is seems many don't connect with that idea. Most see God as a guy saying, "Nope sorry you can't do that, cause I said so and I don't want you to have any fun." I realize now that God says no because He loves me. Reading these lines I think about how I should never give up on anyone. Everyone is a brother or sister. I should love to no end towards everyone.
Jesus,
There are a lot of messed up people in this world. I know because I am one of them. I don't love the way that I should. I see most people as just passing by, unimportant. Help me to see the beauty in each person. Help me to love like you do. Help me to bring love and peace in this world. I know I can't save the world, that's your job, but I want to help if I can. I see how beautiful you are and how you put some of you in each and everyone of us. Help us to respect each other. Help us to commune with you and your Church. Help us all to love. It would do the world some good for sure. I love you Jesus, you are my hero. Thank you.
In Jesus Christ's name,
Amen
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