the use of OT images

[Randy Kluth]

What we allow into our bodies whether through our ears or our mouth bears on our health physically and emotionally, let alone the experiences we all are subject to. God is into restoring his image and he does it by feeding us healthy input. It includes both diet and good information. Will we hear and allow it? That is 101 of the story of salvation.

Generally we think in terms of sacrifice being something killed and laid on an altar. It is much more. Jesus, the majesty of heaven condescending to become a man....and stay a man for the love of man is a gob-smacking sacrifice worthy of contemplation. The fact that men killed him without resisting tells us further of God's character.

Israel were meant to be God's ambassadors to God's character to a wayward world. The Exodus, an unparalleled deliverance mirrors the great deliverance by Jesus' experience. Did they forget it? it took only a few weeks before they were worshipping a golden calf.

We know today what Israel was/ is a witness to. It's an embarrassment to the high privilege they were given. Is it any different with those claiming Jesus as their Lord?

God's utterances through his Prophets are so bent out of shape by those claiming allegiance to him his character is hardy visible to the outside world.....and yet his Spirit perseveres with men's recalcitrance.

Well said!