DLCM DAILY MANNA - WE ARE PECULIAR

DLCM DAILY MANNA DEVOTIONAL

WE ARE PECULIAR

1^ST,JUNE 2022

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: 1 CHRONICLES 1-4

TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 14:1-21

1 “You are the children of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

2 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

3 “You shall not eat any detestable thing.

4 These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

5 the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the mountain goat, the antelope, and the mountain sheep.

6 And you may eat every animal with cloven hooves, having the hoof split into two parts, and that chews the cud, among the animals.

7 Nevertheless, of those that chew the cud or have cloven hooves, you shall not eat, such as these: the camel, the hare, and the rock hyrax; for they chew the cud but do not have cloven hooves; they are unclean for you.

8 Also the swine is unclean for you, because it has cloven hooves, yet does not chew the cud; you shall not eat their flesh or touch their dead carcasses.

9 “These you may eat of all that are in the waters: you may eat all that have fins and scales.

10 And whatever does not have fins and scales you shall not eat; it is unclean for you.

11 “All clean birds you may eat.

12 But these you shall not eat: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,

13 the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds;

14 every raven after its kind;

15 the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds;

16 the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl,

17 the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl,

18 the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat.

19 “Also every creeping thing that flies is unclean for you; they shall not be eaten.

20 “You may eat all clean birds.

21 “You shall not eat anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien who is within your gates, that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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KEY VERSE: DEUTERONOMY 14:2

“For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth"

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Standing for God in obedience to His will makes life more fulfilling.

THE MESSAGE:

People who live in any palace of a king are expected to behave in a dignified way. Those in Buckingham Palace or the White House, for instance, are known to bear that royalty and behave in some special ways to keep the aura and maintain the respect and dignity of the place. Even so, those who have accepted and confessed Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour must behave as true representatives of Christ in a dignified way.

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Israel was a nation chosen by God from among the nations. For this reason, she was not to identify with any of the false religions of the nations. In our text today, God expressly commanded Israel to avoid some animals which He listed to maintain their holy affinity with Him. They did not question God but implicitly obeyed.

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God wants us to be different from the people of the world. The way we handle our ceremonies: burials, weddings and child dedications, house warming, etc., must be different and show that we truly belong to the Lord. When we do otherwise, we drag God's glory in the mud.

We are God's peculiar people. Let us wear this badge always and make it reflect in our conducts, interactions and practices. As God's chosen generation, a holy and royal people, we must learn to live within the confines of God's commandment and be distinct from others (1 Peter 2:9).

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