Emma and I read today in Psalms. I read to her how she was fearfully and wonderfully made. And how God created her her inmost being, and how He knit her together in my womb. I am not ashamed to say that I was crying as I was reading to her. I was just overcome with thanksgiving at the precious little gift that God has given to me.
Later I read these verses and they have sort of stuck with me today.....
Psalm 141:3-4 Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil so that I take part in wicked deeds along with those who are evildoers; do not let me eat their delicacies.
Just a thought.....I wonder why he is talking about our words and guarding what we say and then in the next breath he says.....do not let me eat their delicacies. That little tidbit is thrown in there and it doesn't really make a whole lot of sense right there. Do you think it's just because they were talking about the mouth, or do you think it was something more?
Really, I would like to know your thoughts on it.
2 comments:
I think this has to do with the dietary laws in the OT. Back then you knew the people you were fighting because they were those wild people who ate pork and shellfish and all sorts of things you didn't eat if you were an Israelite.
Today, I think it can be applied broadly to not "consuming" the garbage others consume. This could extend to the passage about how we are not to eat the bread of idleness. I think it's fascinating when God uses metaphors like this. Good question!
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