Therefore He says,
“When He ascended on high,
He led captivity captive,
And He gave gifts to men.” Ephesians 4.8

Gifts for every situation

Two aspects to Paul’s use of this quote from Psalm 68.18 I find fascinating, and they relate to how we should understand culture and its use.

The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. Genesis 2.15

Creatures of culture

Human beings are creatures of culture. There’s just no escaping the fact.

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Four teachings, three facets, time to strive.

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation

Numbers 35.16-21
¹⁶ ‘But if he strikes him with an iron implement, so that he dies, he isa murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he strikes him with a stone in the hand, by which one could die, and he does die, he isa murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁸ Or ifhe strikes him with a wooden hand weapon, by which one could die, and he does die, he isa murderer; the murderer shall surely be put to death. ¹⁹ The avenger of blood himself shall put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. ²⁰ If he pushes him out of hatred or, while lying in wait, hurls something at him so that he dies, ²¹ or in enmity he strikes him with his hand so that he dies, the one who struck himshall surely be put to death. He isa murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.”

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation

Leviticus 19.17, 18   

¹⁹ “You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him. ¹⁸ You shall not take vengeance, nor bear a grudge against the children of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.”

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation

Deuteronomy 22.6, 7
⁶ “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you along the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young; ⁷ you shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you and thatyou may prolong yourdays.”

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation

Deuteronomy 17.14-20
¹⁴ “When you come to the land which the LORDyour God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that arearound me,’ ¹⁵ you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORDyour God chooses; onefrom among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set a foreigner over you, who isnot your brother. ¹⁶ But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, for the LORDhas said to you, ‘You shall not return that way again.’ ¹⁷ Neither shall he multiply wives for himself, lest his heart turn away; nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. ¹⁸ Also it shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write for himself a copy of this law in a book, from the onebefore the priests, the Levites. ¹⁹ And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORDhis God and be careful to observe all the words of this law and these statutes, ²⁰ that his heart may not be lifted above his brethren, that he may not turn aside from the commandment tothe right hand or tothe left, and that he may prolong hisdays in his kingdom, he and his children in the midst of Israel.”

Morning Meditation

Deuteronomy 25.1-3

¹ “If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemning the wicked, ² then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows. ³ Forty blows he may give him andno more, lest he should exceed this and beat him with many blows above these, and your brother be humiliated in your sight.”

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation

Deuteronomy 18.15-20

¹⁵ “The LORDyour God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear, ¹⁶according too all you desired of the LORDyour God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the LORDmy God, nor let me see this great fire anymore, lest I die.’ ¹⁷ And the LORDsaid to me, ‘What they have spoken is good. ¹⁸ I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. ¹⁹ And it shall be that whoever will not hear My words which He speaks in My name, I will require itof him. ²⁰ But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.’”

The Law of God for Daily Meditation

Morning Meditation
Leviticus 19.3

“Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father…”

The old paths, God says, are the best.