Pastor preached a faithful message on Judah and Onan and Tamar, etc. Sometimes, we are avoiding these difficult passages of scripture. Sometimes, we miss the work of God in difficult passages that we are seeing. Judah and his children were in the hand of God, through covenant and they were being drawn by God, into a real relationship. The Word of God reveals God's intention to draw the children of Israel into relationship and the nations around them. What a Lover of souls, God shows Himself in these passages. Don't miss Me, He seems to say. Come and Worship. Don't use other people to get where you want to be, ie. Onan, Judah, brothers. God is still the God who knows our hearts, when we are using people in their poverty of money and or souls. Wicked, He took those boys out early. He knew their hearts and He showed them that their testimony to the Canaanites was more important than continuing to deal with their sin. Halleluia for this testimony that we can know what Wicked is to God. We can know Him and what He wants from us. Repentance, Love of others, more than all, a relationship with Him. It took even godly Enoch some years to get to know Him. Jesus gives us the ability to know God earlier than 360 years, we don't have that long to get to know Him.
Jesus paid it all! All to Him I owe! Sin had left a crimson stain, He washed it!
Help me to know You in these relationships that You have blessed me with. Help me to repent of past sins and make it right, with those that I can and heal my heart of the pains that have cut me in these sins. Make me new. Give us Yourself! Amen!
God sought them out in families. God met each family in their need. Tamar in her need to be a part of the people of God and those boys, in what they thought their need was also. Their need meeting, didn't draw them closer to God, but further away. God is a covenant God and He is faithful, in Christ to teach us His will, against our own personal desires and conquests {sometimes}. God doesn't take people out, like He did then. He sends Godly men like our Pastor to use the Scriptures to win our hearts and minds into relationship with Himself. God arrest our hearts and take us into Your care. Amen
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