Follow and Seek

A Guide to Building Joy Through Virtue for Teens and Young Adults by Samantha McEnhimer

Friday, March 27, 2015

Ezra 9: 13-14

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this, shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? 

Ezra is crying out to The Lord in shame as once agian his people who have just been released from captivity are messing up agian by marrying foreigners who do not worship The Lord and will lead them astray. We too must be careful when we have been released from a thing. We can not be so eager to have a child or so tired of being lonely that we connect ourselves to someone who does not share our love and fear of The Lord. Let's not be released from bondage just to go willingly right back into captivity. 

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