Today's Reading (day 289)

I am back after having been fighting two separate viruses (cough and flu) and hopefully not a third the past week.

Individual References

Matthew 22
Leviticus 12
Ephesians 4
1 Peter 2
Job 41
Psalms 139
Proverbs 10
Judges 16
Isaiah 39
Acts 9

Leviticus 12
King James Version (KJV)
12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.

3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled.
6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest:

7 Who shall offer it before the Lord, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.

8 And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

This passage being played out in real life in the birth of Jesus.....

Luk 2:21    And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
Luk 2:22    And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord;
Luk 2:23    (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
Luk 2:24    And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

Ephesians 4
King James Version (KJV)
4 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.


This is a different kind of unity from the world's unity. It is unity that is based on the true one. It's not an unity of diversity or universal unity... When Jesus sums up "I am the way the truth and the life" he best expresses what unify around. This message gets missed when we try to just make all one big happy family.

4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

It's worth reading the whole chapter of Ephesians 4 there is a lot in there about how we should live.


1 Peter 2
King James Version (KJV)

6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

It's amazing how the cornerstone has shown up in my reading the past week or so.
I have seen it in Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Matthew, the Book of Acts, Ephesians and now first Peter.

Job 41
King James Version (KJV)

Why does God spend the whole chapter on describing the leviathan?

Albert Barnes makes note.

7. Others have understood the whole description as allegorical, as representing monsters of iniquity; and among these, some have regarded it as descriptive of the devil! See Schultens. To these may be added the description of Milton:

- That sea-beast

Leviathan, which God of all his works

Created hug’st that swim the ocean-stream,

Him, haply, slumb’ring on the Norway foam,

The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff

Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell,

With fixed anchor in his scaly rind

Moors by his side under the lee, while night

Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.

Paradise Lost, B. i.