My Faith View from Here - Daily readings and thoughts

Today's Reading (Bible in 1 year) Leviticus 25:35-26:13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2025%3A35-26%3A13&version=NASB1995 Psalm 69:22-36 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2069%3A22-36&version=NASB1995 Isaiah 60:1-9 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2060%3A1-9&version=NASB1995 Luke 4:38-5:11 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A38-5%3A11&version=NASB1995 A World Renewed The year of jubilee was kind of a reset.  Every 50 years, the Israelites had a law that they would follow and celebrate.  If the “year of Jubilee” was still followed, the next one would be October 12, 2035 sunset to October 1, 2036 at sunset.  The jubilee included: Restoration of Property: Leased or mortgaged land returned to its ancestral owner. Release of Debtors: All Hebrew indentured servants were freed, and debts were cancelled. Rest for the Land: No sowing, reaping, or harvesting was permitted, similar to th...

Today's Reading (Bible in 1 year) Leviticus 25:1-34 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2025%3A1-34&version=NASB1995 Psalm 69:13-21 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2069%3A13-21&version=NASB1995 Isaiah 59:9-21 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2059%3A9-21&version=NASB1995 Luke 4:14-37 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14-37&version=NASB1995 Justice Will Come I wake up every morning and read the current news.  Apparently, every evening, before I go to sleep, I read the current news.  It usually doesn’t change much in 8 hours.  Wars, Political unrest, price of oil because of the wars and sometimes my favorite baseball team wins, sometimes they lose.  In Genesis 1:28 God gives humankind direction: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth” Well hav...

Today's Reading (Bible in 1 year) Leviticus 23:26-24:23 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus%2023%3A26-24%3A23&version=NASB1995 Psalm 69:1-12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2069%3A1-12&version=NASB1995 Isaiah 58:13-59:8 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2058%3A13-59%3A8&version=NASB1995 Luke 3:21-4:13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%203%3A21-4%3A13&version=NASB1995 A Heart that Knows Truth Isaiah 59:2 states to the people of Judah, “your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.”  Isaiah then gives some examples: “Your hands are defiled with blood” “Your lips have spoken lies” “Your tongue mutters wickedness” “No one sues righteously and no one pleads honestly” I find it interesting that the very words that Isaiah states are also true of most peoples of the world today.  If a person says they represen...