The Word

It’s close and my heart knows.

Welcome to the Eve of Teshuvah, my favorite time of the year. The season that calls to me. Is Teshuvah is calling you?

On the eve of 40 Days of Teshuvah, Elul 1, I’m reminded of days long ago. When Bibles were on every coffee table. Given center stage in the room, making a profound statement. Saying this house believes. While giving the Bible center stage in a room we neglected the innermost rooms of our bellies.

A reset. Time to return, go back, search, remember, find the reliable paths, determine to walk in them, teach them, and set our hearts securely on Jesus Christ.

Where’s Our Bible

Once so guarded
Precious to the heart
Turned to decor
Assigned a limited part

The words within
Proven to atone
Unread, forgotten
Withering alone

Decorative centerpiece
Status symbol for show
The meaning long forgotten
Immorality began to grow

The soul of our being
Left hungering, unattended
Our Bibles became decoration
Human kind descended

Written to be ingested
Learned and studied
Idle on coffee tables
Minds became muddied

We lost our way
We forgot our call
While many moved them
To a bookshelf wall

Our innermost being
Hungers and thirsts
Let’s go back
Remember the first

Our nation’s founders
Knew and read
The Holy Book
Feared the dread

Of turning away
From the Sovereign God
Left many documents
Knowing men are flawed

Where’s our Bible
I challenge you to read
Especially about our Savior
His will to intercede

Christianity must have
Central place
Our nation is desperate
For God’s great grace

I hear our Savior’s cry
Give Me My rightful place
Return to reliable paths
Leave behind this disgrace

©️ laurette laster August 2023

I’ve been reminded of days gone by, windows raised, houses opened, and coffee table bibles in every home. We had one too, this is it in the photo below.

Desperately desiring the truths inside, while not understanding what to do with “it.”
Like a jeanie in a bottle, would the truths jump out if “it” was in the house.

So comfortable we forgot the meaning. So peaceful we couldn’t imagine danger. But within every page lies a stark reminder…

Remember the Lord your God, thou shalt have no other gods before me.

But we forgot. Then we didn’t know. Then we cry out. And God answers us through the prophet Jeremiah, stand and look, ask for ancient paths, ask where the good way is, but the word goes on, and walk in it and you will
find rest for your souls.

Jesus knew this, and Jeremiah was prophesying Jesus Day, the Lord Jesus quotes Jeremiah’s very words, (Matthew 7:7, 11:28).

Off even a little, for long durations, turns into missing the mark by miles.

Psalms 119:11 from the acrostic poem, the mathematical masterpiece, [found with Bet or house] “I consider Your prophecies to be my greatest treasure, and I memorize them and write them on my heart to keep me from committing sin’s treason against You.”

Teshuvah, my favorite time of the year. A time to return.

Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask which paths are the old, reliable paths. Ask which way leads to blessings. Live that way, and find a resting place for yourselves. But you said that you wouldn’t live that way.
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This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
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Let the last sentence not be said of us. God only needs a remnant. W.A.R.

Blessings of returning, laurette

It’s close and my heart knows…

God bless you and keep you and make His face shine upon and be gracious to you. The Lord cause His countenance to rise upon you and give you Shalom.

Until next time, thanks for listening with me. laurette