Here’s a brief blog series on each of the 12 days of Christmas, with Christian meanings.
On the fifth day of Christmas, my True Love [God] gave to
me:
Five gold-en riiiiings!
Five Books of the Law
The Jews have an
annual feast to celebrate God’s giving of the Law: Shavuot. It remembers Moses coming down Sinai with the
two tablets of the Ten Commandments.
Christians tend not
to celebrate the law as they should. We
have largely lost the Psalmist’s heart cry, “Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day” (Psalm
119:97).
It can be helpful
to read the Ten Commandments as God’s wedding vows, as He takes Israel as His
bride. “I have done this for you; you be
faithful to Me in these ways.”
1 – no other
husbands/gods
2 – no pictures,
either, to run after them
3 – take My name
and wear it well
4 – spend time with
Me
5 – honor your
ancestors and authorities
6 – no physical
harm
7 – obvious
Etc
All those obscure
Levitical laws were specific things God gave us to do to show that we are set
apart as His bride, and no one else’s.
So cherish all of
the Bible in 2021, as coming from the God who loves you.
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