This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
Wontons and the Bible?
Tell me how this reads to you: “But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel. But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert; he gave them what they asked, but sent a wasting disease among them.”
I read this and thought, “I had no idea that wontons were in the Bible. I guess people had cravings back then too, but I didn’t realize wontons were such a big thing…then I came to the realization…”wanton” not “wonton”. I felt dumb, but then I felt hungry.
Make sure you read the actual word kids.
In these Psalms, God gives a really clear picture of the people of Israel. He tells it like it is. Israel constantly falls away from God, and he constantly comes to their aid when they cry our for help. As it’s all listed out here in these chapters, it starts to become real to you the amount of love that God must have for these people to continually show them love even when they run away from him.
My favorite part is: “They exchange the glory of God for the image of an ox that eats grass”
It just shows the extremes that people go to. They have access to the God of the entire universe. Who created the world, the stars, the sky, every human, everything that you see, he created, and yet people choose to worship an animal that spends its life eating what you step on…how crazy are we to do this? For you or me it may not be an ox, but maybe it’s our job that we have, maybe it’s getting fit and working out. For me, maybe it’s just having fun with friends.
When you put those things in perspective with God, do we realize how silly that sounds? Let’s not be foolish like Israel and constantly turn from God, let’s be a people that runs full speed ahead at God and his promises.