The scripture for today, July 2 (7/2), is Proverbs 7:2ff as found in the Old Testament of the Bible.

“Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.  Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.  Say to wisdom, ‘You are my sister,’ and call understanding your kinsman.”

It seems, everywhere we turn, we are given differing religious opinions.  They cannot all be true, but everyone who says them seems to be so good.  They all pray and do good deeds, and never lie, cheat or steal.  But how can they all be right when they contradict each other?  Preachers and creeds and elders and dogmas.  When it comes down to it, only God’s opinion counts.  

So how do we get God’s opinion?  We look up everything in the Bible using the key word we are concerned about.  We look it up for ourselves and decide for ourselves.  We do not let other people decide for us.

Well, how do we find all those verses?  By using a concordance which is like a large dictionary listing all the words in the Bible and what verses carry those words.  It is the size of a large-city telephone book.  You can also get it on the internet free here:

http://bibletab.com/

So today look up something about Christianity you have always been curious about.  Then you’ll have wisdom, understanding, and God’s opinion.

The scripture for today, July 1 (7/1), is Leviticus 7:1f as found in the Old Testament of the Bible.

“These are the regulations for the guilt offering, which is most holy.  The guilt offering is to be slaughtered in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, and its blood is to be sprinkled against the altar on all sides.”

Romans 3:23 says the wages of sin is death.  The price was paid over and over with perfect animal sacrifices in the Old Testament. But Jesus nailed the Old Law to the cross (Colossians 2:14), and with his one sacrifice made it so that no more blood sacrifices were necessary (Hebrews 8-9).

In a sense, Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God, laid down on the altar of the world where his blood flowed from all sides of the cross to all sides of the earth.

Jesus paid the penalty for our sins in our place.  Do you ever thank him?