And you, Ezra, are to use the wisdom your
God has given you to appoint magistrates and judges who know your God's laws to
govern all the people in the province west of the Euphrates River.
Teach the law to anyone who does not know
it. Ezra 7:25
The Israelites had been in captivity in
Babylon for seventy years and now it was time for them to go back to Israel, to
Jerusalem and to rebuild the Temple. Ezra was a priest and scribe that wrote
the book of Ezra and was tasked with copying the Law given to Moses and
teaching it to other Israelites. This verse above also tells us that Ezra
appointed magistrates and judges over the Jewish people residing in the
Babylonian Kingdom, west of the Euphrates River. That is a lot of territory.
Now the Jews were headed home to Israel and for them to know God’s Laws was
important. Those were the rules to live by that they had originally ignored.
That ignorance is what caused them to be exiled to Babylon. Now they needed to
know the Law so that they could live by it. God gave Ezra wisdom to teach the
Israelites how He wanted them to live…to treat each other and how to rebuild
the Temple.
If you or people close to you have been
away from the Lord for a while—like the Israelites when they were in Babylon—then
it may be time to consider God’s will for your life. Blessing on you as you
apply His Word to your life.
Prayer
~Lord Jesus…bless my family and
friends with wisdom that they would seek and serve You with all of their heart,
soul, mind and strength.
© 2016 by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT)
unless otherwise noted.
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