This is the ninety-fifth lesson in author and pastor Mel Lawrenz’ How to Live the Bible series. If you know someone or a group who would like to follow along on this journey through Scripture, they can get more info and sign up to receive these essays via email here.
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I’ve met so many people over the years who can identify with the Israelites. Their sanctuary was leveled—that place in their lives where they felt safe and secure. A spouse may have died, and even though everyone knows the rule going into marriage—”til death do us part”—the parting still seems like a devastating tornado. A person may have been fired from his or her job. A child died of leukemia. A relationship turned bitter. Life fell to pieces.
Many of those people will tell you that the only thing they could cling to was God. Amid unanswered questions and threatening sky, an instinct inside said, run to God and wedge yourself into him as if into the crevasse of a great mountain. Or, better yet, seek God at the temple.
By Ryan Romeo
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