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The bible's culture about names is something we have lost over time. If you have a good name, that means you have honor and character. A good family name meant the family was upright and had positive characteristics.
If someone had a bad name, that could carry through generations. There is even a scale of disrespect to respect in the Bible. From highest to lowest
A name recorded in the bible is the highest honor.
Being referenced positively without recording a name is the second highest. (Being numbered with Israel for instance)
Not being mentioned is kind of the baseline.
Purposely not being mentioned is shameful. A huge slam.
Having your name blotted out of the record to never be mentioned again is the worst.

The society would shun anybody who did something awful, even to the point of besmirching a family name.

Today, we do the opposite. The worst behavior gets the most attention. How many names do we know because the people committed horrific crimes? Even within the last week how many got famous for doing bad things?

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
(2Ti 3:1-7)

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.
Luke 4:27

God doesn't heal every sick person. Maybe because they wouldn't receive the healing or God just had a higher purpose that we can't see. Who are we to question who God chooses to call, heal, or speak to?

I just thought of an analogy. Your spiritual walk is like an old timex watch: if you dont tend to it daily, it will stop working and you wont know what time itis. Dont let your watch stop, or Yeshua will come like a theif in the night and you wont be ready!

Everyone enjoys a good story. Some of the best stories are in the Bible. In fact, the stories of the Bible, most of which are historical accounts, contain much of the truths by which God wants His people to live. Why, then, are we more eager to pay attention to stories from other sources instead of God's stories?

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It’s All In The Story - The Barking Fox

Everyone enjoys a good story. Some of the best stories are in the Bible. In fact, the stories of the Bible, most of which are historical accounts, contain much of the truths by which God wants His people to live. Why, then, are we more eager to pay a

Lily Portion for Today

Mothers, what could be more uplifting and ennobling than a heart trusting so completely that it is willing to forfeit everything for the sake of fulfilling YHVH’s will? (Adonai Yeshua, teach me that the hours I spend waiting for You, are never wasted hours; Those are the times that Elohiym reveals Himself through the marvellous ways in which He works in my family’s lives, amein)

Republicans really need to check their openly racist behavior.

They aren't even trying to hide it. When they can do it, in public, and their "news" media mostly fails to even mention it, their constituents fail to call it out, it shows just how bad it is. Just how far they have fallen. What does melanin content, for a holiday party that is "supposed" to be about bringing in people from all nations, love and unity, have to do with it? Its ridiculous and hypocrytical and should be called out for what it is!

Racist!

Oh, wait, did I say Republicans? Sorry that was the Democrats.