Gives whole new meaning to “you’re so cute, I could eat you up.” Doesn’t it?
When studying the Bible, the context must be taken into account. Literary. Historical. Cultural. But this is one verse that I think might be more applicable today then when it was originally written.
Gossip and slander have always been issues. This verse is a warning to those first century Christians.
But what about today? We live in a consumer society. We use up and throw away. We love games such as “Pac-Man” and “Hungry Hungry Hippo.” Those of yesteryear had real worries of having food on the table. We worry about “paper or plastic.”
And people? Today, it is not uncommon to use someone and then discard them. “That’s real life.” And then we go on our way.
Will we be a people who bite and devour one another? And when we are done, we throw them away? For some reason reality shows come to mind here.
LORD, help us to be a people who do not bite, do not devour. Let us be a people that value others as ones created in YOUR image. By our obedience to YOU, we are set apart. We desire to be “a people for GOD’s own possession, so that we may proclaim the excellencies of HIM who has called us out of darkness into HIS marvelous light.”
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