Versetto introduttivo: marco 3:1-6 Meditazione a cura di:Santa Abiusi Registrato presso: chiesa di bari il …21/05/2022 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cChzyGfop8U
Perchè adoriamo Dio – Egli provede a ogni cosa
Mini devotional n. 9/2 trimestre 2022 – Egli provede a ogni cosa, della serie Perché adoriamo Dio. Vi siete mai chiesti perché restituiamo la decima di ogni entrata? Forse la risposta migliore è che il nostro Dio è Colui che provvede a ogni cosa. Paolo dice: "Il mio Dio provvederà a ogni vostro bisogno, secondo la sua gloriosa ricchezza, in Cristo Gesù" (Filippesi 4:19). Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Ylr4bxtxE
Meat of the Matter: Non-Vegetarians Can Be Healthier Than Vegetarians
“If you’re interested in living longer or to your maximal potential, you’d be wise to avoid a diet filled with ultra-processed foods and replace them with less processed or unprocessed foods. At the same time, avoid eating a lot of red meat. It’s as simple as that.”—Gary Fraser, LLUH study author. Animal-based food consumption (meat, […] Source: https://atoday.org/meat-of-the-matter-non-vegetarians-can-be-healthier-than-vegetarians/
Connect to Commit
We witness the war continuing with great concern, people losing their loved ones and their homes. We are making every effort to help accommodate refugees (including Seventh-day Adventist refugees) in the UK. Dedicated staff from Adventist Community Services from all the entities within the British Union Conference, the two Conferences of North and South and the three Missions are working together to encourage, empower and educate church members to open their homes and register as hosts.
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Thursday: Jacob Leaves
In this story, Jacob — who deceived his father and his brother to acquire the birthright, and who stole the blessing that Isaac designed to give to his elder son — nevertheless remained passive toward Laban and served him faithfully. Jacob knows well that he has been deceived by his father-in-law, and yet, he let it go. It is difficult to understand Jacob’s passivity considering his temperament. Jacob could have revolted, or at least resisted Laban or bargained with him. But he didn’t. He just did what Laban had asked, no matter how unfair it all was.
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Nevertheless, at the birth of Rachel’s first son Joseph, Jacob finally reached the fourteenth year of his “service” to Laban (Genesis 30:26), and now considers leaving Laban in order to return to the Promised Land. But Jacob is concerned about providing for his “own house” (Genesis 30:30).
Read Genesis 30:25-32. What is happening here, and what kind of reasoning does Jacob use? What is Laban’s response?
It had been a very long detour for Jacob, who had long been gone from home. It probably had not been his original intention to stay away from his country for so long, but events kept him away for years. It’s now time to return home, and what a family he will return with too.
Meanwhile, Jacob’s unnatural compliance suggests that Jacob has perhaps changed; he has understood the lesson of faith. That is, Jacob waited for God’s signal to go. It is only when God speaks to him that Jacob decides to move.
God reveals Himself to Jacob as “the God of Bethel” and commands Jacob to leave Laban’s house and return to “your family” (Genesis 31:13, NKJV) with the same words that God used to call Abram to leave “from your family” (Genesis 12:1, NKJV).
What helped him see that it was time to go, too, was the attitude of Laban’s sons and Laban himself (see Genesis 31:1-2). “Jacob would have left his crafty kinsman long before but for the fear of encountering Esau. Now he felt that he was in danger from the sons of Laban, who, looking upon his wealth as their own, might endeavor to secure it by violence.” — Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 193.
Hence, he took his family and possessions and left, thus beginning another phase in the great saga of God’s covenant people.
Amen!
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