Today's Favorite Verse: Ezra 10:1
"Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore."
The Jews had taken "strange wives" out of the lands of their captivity. Any time the children of Israel had done that destruction had come upon them. Now they are in a state of repentance and the most heart breaking thing is they needed to put away these heathen wives and the children that came from them. They are breaking up the families they created. That seems so harsh and I sat and pondered on what does that represent for me today?
The first thing I thought of is how much easier it would have been if they never sinned. If they never married against the law to begin with. Then these broke hearts would have never happened. So first thing is to be obedient to God's commandments and laws, for it will protect my heart in the long run.
Then I thought on the repentance process and the confessing of sins. Forsaking of it, and doing it no more is all part of this process. Putting away the heathen wives was necessary part for them. It is like the giving up of worldliness today. No one said it wouldn't be painful if you loved the world to begin with.
Day 988
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