"Take heed in an outbreak of leprosy, that you carefully observe and do according to all that the priests, the Levites, shall teach you; just as I commanded them, so you shall be careful to do." Deuteronomy 24:8
My dear mother called yesterday, and we spoke for two hours about the many events happening in our little town. Uh, no. Mom did call yesterday, but there are no events here, no happenings to pass along. We are under stay-at-home orders like most of the world is at this time.
Even a trip to the grocery store appears fraught with dire peril in this time, but it isn't the first time. Way back in the Law of Moses we find the law set down for an outbreak of a certain plague that was feared by all. The commandment begins with a 'carefully observe and do all', and the all was taught to an earthly authority - a group of people that the Israelites could see and hear every day. And among the Israelites were likely those who were too smart to do all according to what they were told and shown. And it is also quite possible that these proud ones did not survive the plague. What is worse is that these same ones might have kept the plague going when obedience would have ended the thing.
Let the tombstone not read, "The plague came, and he was so smart that he died of it."
For the love of our neighbors, we obey!
In Christ the Lord, Bucky
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